Mexican American

English

Noun

Mexican American (plural Mexican Americans)

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Mexican,‎ American.
Synonyms: Mexamerican, Chicano
(US, nonstandard, proscribed) Any person of Latin American descent in the United States.
Synonyms: (offensive) wetback, (offensive) beaner, (offensive) illegal

Hypernyms: Hispanic, Latino

Further reading

“Mexican American”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
“Mexican American”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

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