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/Sounds like "YOO" (as in "you") + "krah" (as in "crack")/

Meaning

Grueling, exhausting hard work that leaves your body completely drained. In Bolivia, yucra describes the heavy labor of fieldwork, construction, or any brutal physical task that leaves you barely standing by the end of the day.

Examples

What brutal work today, I was hauling sacks all day under the sun.

That is pure hard labor, not everyone can handle it.

Regional synonyms

Mexican phrase to call someone out for deliberately playing dumb. It means demanding they stop pretending not to know or understand something they clearly do.