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Tijuana

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//tɪˈ(h)wɑːnə//
  • United States//tiˈ(h)wɑnə//
  • United States//tiəˈ(h)wɑnə//

The largest city in Baja California, Mexico, by the American border with San Diego.

proper noun

  1. 1

    The largest city in Baja California, Mexico, by the American border with San Diego.

    You're a drug addict lying on your back / In a Tijuana hotel room

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Tijuana, possibly from Kumeyaay Tiwan (literally “by-the-sea”).

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).