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carajo

carajo

1 9.9
A very far away, unpleasant place that is hard to reach
  • noun
  • Offensive
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  • The hotel was nice, but the surrounding area felt like a carajo, with nothing but dirt roads and abandoned buildings.

Examples

  • When he said he was going on a camping trip to the carajo, we all laughed, imagining him struggling in the wilderness.

  • In the final three stanzas, the carajos fight valiantly against the coos, and in the end, the cos win the battle.

    Academic text (2003)

  • We witness a final playful battle of the carajos and coos, who fight to defend the joys of sex: PREFORMATTED TABLE

    Academic text (2003)

  • After spending hours lost in the mountains, we finally found ourselves in the carajo, far from any civilization.

Synonyms

middle of nowhere
vscarajo
  • Informal
91 4.6

A place far from towns and people

adds a strong unpleasant or hellish quality beyond mere remoteness
hellhole
vscarajo
  • Informal
51 7.9

A very dirty, unpleasant, and dangerous place

stresses remoteness and disagreeableness rather than filth or danger
the pits
vscarajo
  • Informal
5 8.8

A very bad situation that makes you feel unhappy

adds the idea of extreme distance or a hellish quality beyond casual misery
snake pit
vscarajo
  • Informal
3 7.3

An unpleasant, chaotic place where people act badly toward each other

is broader, also applying to places that are simply far or disagreeable
the bad place
vscarajo
  • Informal
8.7

A place believed to be for punishment after death or a very bad situation

is broader, meaning any far or disagreeable place rather than punishment
real shitland
vscarajo
  • Offensive
9.9

A very unpleasant and unsafe place with crime and poor services

can instead mean a remote or generally disagreeable location
as far away as Timbuktu
vscarajo
  • Informal
8.4

Extremely far away and hard to reach or get

adds that the location is disagreeable or hellish as well as distant

Surface Forms

carajo singular
carajos plural

Etymology

Carajo is often used to mean a very far or unpleasant place, like telling someone to 'go to hell'. One old story says sailors used carajo for a small high platform on a ship's mast, so being sent to the carajo came to mean being sent far away, which explains the modern sense.