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wetback

[ UK /wˈɛtbæk/ ]
NOUN
  1. (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Mexican descent

How To Use wetback In A Sentence

  • Look over there, a wetback is trying to take your job! Think Progress » VIDEO: Luntz Converts On Global Warming, Distances Himself From Bush
  • He discusses how fluctuations in the U.S. economy correlate with the bracero programs and ‘Operation Wetback’ of the 1950s.
  • A gook is a raghead is a wetback is a redskin is a girl. Archive 2008-09-01
  • If it is legitimate and that is indeed Gibson's voice screaming at ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva, this recording includes Gibson's use of the derogatory term wetback to describe an employee who cares for the couple's daughter. Mel Gibson: Yet another audio tape, yet another slur
  • In countries such as Spain, governments have turned a blind eye to illegals for decades because they know the farmers need cheap wetback workers (who have no rights) to work in the fields.
  • Better equivalents to cotton picker are wetback and moneychanger I'm sure there's many more for every racial group. Friday Night Open Thread: Comics
  • Even the terminology is dangerous: the old word wetback is now considered a racist insult by all good liberals; and the perfectly correct terms illegal alien and illegal immigrant can set off charges of xenophobia, elitism, fascism, and the ever-popular genocide against anyone careless enough to use them. What To Call An Illegal Alien??
  • Gringo is a legitime word that sometimes is used in a derogatory way, but is very different to a word like greaser, wetback or beaner, which is derogatory from the conception. (native Mexican, location unkown) chinagringo Page 2
  • Oh look at this wonderful American marrying this poor wetback just so she can stay in the country.
  • At least in the north a few wetbacks are always to be found.
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