wetback

[ wet-bak ]

nounSlang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive.
  1. a contemptuous term used to refer to a Mexican laborer who enters the U.S. illegally, as by wading the Rio Grande.

Origin of wetback

1
An Americanism dating back to 1945–50; wet + back1

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British Dictionary definitions for wetback

wetback

/ (ˈwɛtˌbæk) /


noun
  1. US informal, offensive a Mexican labourer who enters the US illegally

Origin of wetback

1
C20: illegal immigrants would swim across the Rio Grande river to reach the US

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