wetback

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
wetback
    n 1: (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Mexican
         descent [syn: {greaser}, {wetback}, {taco}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
wetback \wet"back\ n.
   1. A Mexican who enters the United States illegally, by
      wading across the Rio Grande; -- disparaging and
      offensive.
      [PJC]

   2. Hence: An offensive term for a person of Mexican descent,
      usually intended and considered as an ethnic slur.
      [WordNet sense 1]

   Syn: greaser, taco.
        [WordNet 1.5]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
34 Moby Thesaurus words for "wetback":
      Aussie, Boche, Canuck, Chink, DP, Guinea, Hunk, Hunkie, Jerry,
      Kraut, Krauthead, Mick, Mickey, Paddy, dago, displaced person,
      emigrant, emigre, evacue, evacuee, exile, expatriate, frog,
      greaseball, greaser, immigrant, in-migrant, limey, migrant,
      migrator, migratory worker, out-migrant, stateless person,
      trekker
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