Moctezuma's revenge

A form of Montezuma's revenge — Diarrhea experienced by tourists after drinking water or eating food in Mexico as a result of a microorganism to which native Mexicans are immune.

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Meanings

nounMoctezuma's revenge (uncountable)
  1. alternativehumorousuncountableAlternative form of Montezuma's revenge.

    We warily sipped the lemonade, knowingly flirting with the tourist stomach disorder known here as Moctezuma's revenge.

    2010, George Ann Huck, Jann E. Freed, Women of Yucatán: Thirty Who Dare to Change Their World, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 18
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    When we were together in Mexico in the early seventies, she came down with a bad case of Moctezuma's revenge, complaining that she'd never been sick to her stomach before.

    2014, M. I. Lastman, “Answers”, in Rocky Mountain Locust: Opus I, Trio: A Novel, Victoria, B.C.: FriesenPress, →ISBN, part 1 (Jim), page 32
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