Chicanos

Cultural  

1. Mexican-Americans; short for the Spanish word mexicanos, which is sometimes pronounced mechicanos. In recent years, Latino and Latina have become more widely used to describe Hispanic-Americans in general.

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Example Sentences

Chicanos have largely dropped Aztlán as an aspirational legend, as the Latino population in the U.S. has diversified.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2024

“They account for 25% of the national box office by themselves. And we are the most underrepresented population in Hollywood by far. When you consider Mexican Americans and Chicanos, we’re even worse off.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2024

Instead, he became one of countless young Chicanos drafted by the U.S. government to fight the Viet Cong.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2023

Garay-English said they sought Latino theaters that are made up of and that serve Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Venezuelans and other Latinos in the diaspora.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2023

These men were all Chicanos, and he was a white man, the person theoretically in charge of this search.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols