ma|ri|e|li|to

ma|ri|e|li|to «_MAH ree uh LEE toh», noun, plural -tos.

any one of the refugees from Cuba who arrived in Miami by boat in 1980: »

The Cuban response to the black marielitos was intense (New Yorker).

╂[< American Spanish marielito < Mariel, the port in Cuba from which the refugees departed]