Mexican American
See also: Mexamerican
English
Alternative forms
- Mexamerican
Adjective
Mexican-American (comparative more Mexican American, superlative most Mexican American)
- (of a person) American and Mexican.
- Synonyms: Mexamerican, Chicano
Noun
Mexican American (plural Mexican Americans)
- Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see Mexican, American.
- Synonyms: Mexamerican, Chicano
- (US, nonstandard, proscribed) Any person of Latin American descent in the United States.
- Synonyms: Wetback (highly offensive), Beaner (highly offensive), Illegal (highly offensive)
- Hypernyms: Hispanic, Latino
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