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Noun
Mexican American (plural Mexican Americans)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Mexican, American.
- Synonyms: Mexamerican, Chicano
- (US, nonstandard, proscribed) Any person of Latin American descent in the United States.
- Synonyms: (offensive) wetback, (offensive) beaner, (offensive) illegal
- Hypernyms: Hispanic, Latino
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