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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

A snobby upper-class person with an air of superiority and contempt for those they consider beneath them. In Argentina, cajetilla is a pointed insult aimed at the privileged who flaunt their status and look down on regular people.