Etymology

Gitmo

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Today it means: Guantanamo Bay, the US naval base at the eponymous location, on the island of Cuba. Full definition →

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The story

From GTMO (Guantanamo), pronounced as if it were a word rather than letter by letter.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.