wetback

3 definitions found

wetback - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  wetback \wet"back\ n.
     1. A Mexican who enters the United States illegally, by
        wading across the Rio Grande; -- disparaging and
        offensive.
        [PJC]
  
     2. Hence: An offensive term for a person of Mexican descent,
        usually intended and considered as an ethnic slur.
        [WordNet sense 1]
  
     Syn: greaser, taco.
          [WordNet 1.5]

wetback - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  wetback
      n 1: (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Mexican
           descent [syn: greaser, wetback, taco]

wetback - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  34 Moby Thesaurus words for "wetback":
     Aussie, Boche, Canuck, Chink, DP, Guinea, Hunk, Hunkie, Jerry,
     Kraut, Krauthead, Mick, Mickey, Paddy, dago, displaced person,
     emigrant, emigre, evacue, evacuee, exile, expatriate, frog,
     greaseball, greaser, immigrant, in-migrant, limey, migrant,
     migrator, migratory worker, out-migrant, stateless person,
     trekker