wetback
/ˈwɛtbak
/noun US informal, derogatory
A Mexican living in the US, especially without official authorization.The illegal immigrants are known colloquially as mojados or wetbacks, illegals, and pollos - Spanish for ‘chickens,’ the prey of coyotes....
- Off and on for several years we employed a wetback, an illegal alien, who worked around the house and yard.
- I think he's a goddamn wetback, so you may want to notify the Immigration Service.
Origin
1920s: so named from the practice of swimming the Rio Grande to reach the US.
Rhymes
- social historian
- social-historical
- social history
- social housing
- social imperialism
- social imperialist
- social inquiry report
- social insurance
- socialisation
- socialise
- socialism
- socialist
- socialist chauvinist
- socialistic
- socialistically
- socialist realism
- socialist revolutionary
- socialite
- KS
- Kshatriya
- KStJ
- kt
- Ktaadn
- K/T boundary
- kthx