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wetback
noun- an illegal immigrant to the US from Mexico US, 1929
An offensive and figurative term deriving from the crossing of the Rio Grande River between Mexico and the US. Displaying a candour endemic to the time, the US Border Patrol launched “Operation Wetback” in 1954 to stem the tide of illegal immigration from Mexico. - Sometimes a Chink or wetback gets into the city with some; it doesn’t last long. — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Scene, p. 83, 1960
- [D]rool by the lamppost and the bar with the rest of the wetbacks. — Lester Bangs, Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, p. 115, 1973
- — Maledicta, p. 125, Summer 1980: “Racial and ethnic slurs: regional awareness and variations”
- EDDIE: Now the bartender was a wetback, he was a friend of mine, his name was Carlos. — Reservoir Dogs, 1992
- You wanted to box, but you didn’t want to train, so them li’l wetbacks wiped the ring up with your ass. — Odie Hawkins, Midnight, p. 9, 1995
- Is it a more hurtful racial epithet than insults such as kike, wop, wetback, mick, chink, and gook? — Randall Kennedy, Nigger, p. 1, 2002
- At the committee meeting that sparked the controversy, Buck had said, “Obviously if they’re a wetback in this country illegally, they’re not going to have any identification.” — The Tennessean, p. 1A, 5 May 2004
- in surfing, a large wave US
- [O]nce you’ve licked those there is only one step further to Makaha where they have the real giant wetbacks. — Frederick Kohner, Gidget, p. 4, 1957
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