Yankophilic

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English

Etymology

From Yank +‎ -o- +‎ -philic.

Adjective

Yankophilic (not comparable)

  1. (informal) Fond of or admiring the United States or American culture.
    • 1995, Peter Manuel, “Latin Music in the New World Order: Salsa & Beyond”, in Ron Sakolsky, Fred Wei-han Ho, editors, Sounding Off!: Music As Subversion/Resistance/Revolution, Brooklyn, New York, NY: Autonomedia, →ISBN, page 279:
      The local, predominantly white bourgeoisie tended to disparage salsa as música de monos—monkey music—just as in Puerto Rico, affluent, Yankophilic rock fans (rockeros) deprecated salsa lovers by the similarly racist term cocolos (loosely, “coconut-heads”).