Wetback

Definition: Wetback

Wetback

Noun

1. Ethnic slur; offensive terms for a person of Mexican descent.

Domain	Definitions
Slang	Hispanic person. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Wetback is a derogatory term used to describe illegal Mexican immigrants in the United States of America.

Synonyms: Wetback

Synonyms: greaser (n), taco (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Wetback

Specialty definitions using "wetback": Hispanic person. (references)

Domain	Usage
Lyrics	To the land of the wetback, (In Old Mexico; performing artist: Tom Lehrer)
Movie/TV Titles	The Wetback Hound (1957)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Los Mojados: The Wetback Story (reference) Wetback Labor in Lower Rio Grande Valley (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "wetback"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		非法渡境者. (various references)

Greek		λαθραίοσ μεξικάνοσ εργάτησ εν ηνωμέναισ πολιτείαισ. (various references)

Hungarian		tiltott határátlépő, illegális határátlépő. (various references)

Korean		멕시코인 밀입자. (various references)

Pig Latin		etbackway

Russian		мексиканец (mexican). (various references)

Swedish		illegalt invandrad mexikanare. (various references)

Turkish		kaçak meksikalı göçmen. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "wetback": wetbacks. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-k-t-w"
	-2 letters: tweak, wacke.
	-3 letters: abet, back, bake, bate, beak, beat, beck, beta, cake, cate, tace, tack, take, teak, twae, wack, wake, weak, weka.
	-4 letters: ace, act, ate, awe, bat, bet, cab, cat, caw, eat, eta, kab, kae, kat, kea, tab, tae, taw, tea, tew, twa, wab, wae, wat, web, wet.
	-5 letters: ab, ae, at, aw.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-k-t-w"
	+1 letter: wetbacks.
	+2 letters: backswept, backwater, buckwheat, waterbuck.
	+3 letters: backwaters, blackwater, buckwheats, waterbucks.
	+4 letters: blackwaters, cabinetwork.
	+5 letters: cabinetworks, switchbacked.
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