Associations to the word «Wetback»

Wiktionary

WETBACK, noun. (derogatory slang) A Mexican or Central American who illegally enters the United States of America from its southern border.
WETBACK, noun. (derogatory slang) A person of the Mestizo race, used interchangeably with the Spanish term mojado.

Dictionary definition

WETBACK, noun. (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Mexican descent.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope