Crossword clues for wetback
The Collaborative International Dictionary
wetback \wet"back\ n.
A Mexican who enters the United States illegally, by wading across the Rio Grande; -- disparaging and offensive.
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Hence: An offensive term for a person of Mexican descent, usually intended and considered as an ethnic slur.
Syn: greaser, taco.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context derogatory slang English) A Mexican or Central American who illegally enters the United States of America from its southern border. 2 (context derogatory slang English) A person of the Mestizo race, used interchangeably with the Spanish term ''mojado''.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Wetback is a derogatory term used in the United States to refer to foreign citizens living in the U.S., most commonly Mexicans. The word mostly targets illegal immigrants in the U.S.
Generally used as an ethnic slur, the term was originally coined and applied only to Mexicans who entered the U.S. state of Texas from Mexico by crossing the Rio Grande, which forms the border between Texas and Mexico, presumably by swimming or wading across the river and getting wet in the process.
Wetback may refer to:
- Wetback (slur), a derogatory slang term for illegal Mexicans in other countries
- Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary, a 2005 film about undocumented immigration to Canada
- Operation Wetback, a project of the INS that deported about 1 million illegal aliens in 1954
- Wetback Tank, a reservoir in New Mexico
- Water heater, also referred to as a "wetback heater"
Usage examples of "wetback".
His analyst, a crazed and boozy wetback named Geronimo Diaz, had, of course, a great deal to say about this.
Who would ever have thought that prissy little wetback twat Seguin would have it in her?
All I can think of is to take with me a horde of wetback thieves and burglars.
Nacogdoches where she had seen some wetbacks sitting on a curb waiting for gringos to offer them work.
Beverly and Alvaradoclose to his clienteledope dealers and wetbacks hot to bring the family up from Mexico.
Wax worked out of a storefront on Beverly and Alvarado-close to his clientele-dope dealers and wetbacks hot to bring the family up from Mexico.
Joredco laid Coleman off when the boss found a wetback family who'd work for an extra-low group rate.
Wetbacks congregated outside: pointing at the sun like they were telling time by it, hot for the truck to arrive--stoop labor for three hots and a cot.