grito

plural gritos

1. A Mexican outcry characterized by ululation, used as an expression before a battle cry or ranchera.

   The night doesn’t begin to end until someone starts pouring tequila, plays this song [“Por Tu Maldito Amor”], and belts out a grito in their best Chente voice — operatic and soaring with a tinge of melancholy.

   2021 December 13, Maira Garcia, “Vicente Fernández, the King of Machos and Heartbreak”, in The New York Times, retrieved 13 Dec 2021

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   During the post-election turmoil, an estimated fifteen thousand people gathered at the Angel of Independence on Independence Day 1988 for a grito organized by the PAN that the party described as an event “that signifies the authentic freedom of Mexico” and that focused on repudiating electoral fraud.

   2016 June 1, Randal Sheppard, A Persistent Revolution: History, Nationalism, and Politics in Mexico since 1968, Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, page 140