Etymology

no más

Today it means: no more Full definition →

Spanish no más
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  1. Spanish · borrowed fromno más“only, just”
  2. English todayno más

Borrowed from Spanish no más (“only, just”). Its use as an interjection is a pseudo-Hispanism derived from an English-to-Spanish calque of no more.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.