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wetback

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈwɛtbæk/Part of speech nounSorted abcektwStarts with WEnds with K0 clues
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Definitions

  1. (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Mexican descent

Word origin

First used in the 1920s from the presumed effects of swimming or wading across the Rio Grande. Used by the U.S. Government in 1954 with Operation Wetback.

Used in a sentence

  • He went through a couple of bottles of wine and made a speech denouncing wetbacks and Asian immigrants.
  • A successful wetback, the limo driver was thinking—that was his assessment of his Mexican-American passenger.

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