WETBACK meaning: Offensive term for Mexican immigrant

We found 22 dictionaries that define the word wetback:

General (20 matching dictionaries)

wetback: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wetback: Merriam-Webster
wetback: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
wetback: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
wetback: Collins English Dictionary
wetback: Vocabulary.com
wetback: Wordnik
wetback: Wiktionary
wetback: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
wetback: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
wetback: Infoplease Dictionary
wetback: Dictionary.com
wetback: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Wetback (slur), Wetback: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
wetback: Rhymezone
wetback: FreeDictionary.org
wetback: Mnemonic Dictionary
wetback: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

Wetback (offensive): Racial Slur Database
wetback, wetback, wetback: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See wetbacking as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun: (derogatory slang) A Mexican or Central American who illegally enters the United States of America from its southern border.
▸ noun: (derogatory slang) A person of the mestizo race; a mojado.

Similar:

greaser, taco, beaner, gringo, kike, dago, Mexicano, ethnic slur, darkie, wog, more...

Opposite:

frontier, settler, immigrant, legal immigrant

Phrases:

Operation Wetback, more...

Adjectives:

little, mexican, poor, literary, young, communist, real, goddamn, old, dead, many

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