Mexican American

English

Noun

Mexican American (plural Mexican Americans)

1. An American of Mexican descent.

   Synonyms: Mexamerican, Chicano

   Hypernyms: American < person

   Hyponym: pachuco

2. (US, nonstandard, proscribed) Any person of Latin American descent in the United States.

   Hypernyms: Hispanic, Latino

   Near-synonyms: (offensive) wetback, (offensive) beaner, (offensive) illegal

Derived terms

• Mexican-American

Further reading

• “Mexican American”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Mexican American”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.