wetback Hear it!

wetback definition

☆ wet·back (wet′bak′)

noun

Informal a Mexican agricultural laborer who illegally enters or is brought into the U.S. to work: a term of derision or contempt

Etymology: from crossing the border by swimming or wading the Rio Grande

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Comments
Improve this definition.
Do you have more to add? Share your linguistic knowledge or observation.
/Register to save your comments.