Mexicans
People from Mexico, a country in southern North America.
| Term | Origin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Anchor Baby | Refers to children born in the United States to parents who are undocumented immigrants. The implication is that the child serves as a legal anchor allowing the family to remain in the country, though birthright citizenship does not automatically confer this benefit. | |
| Blue collar | Many illegal immigrants take manual labor jobs. | |
| Border Bandit | A Mexican who has crossed the border illegally. Also a "BB" | |
| Bracero | Spanish term for a Mexican migrant worker | |
| Brown Tractor | They sometimes do work tractors might normally be used for. | |
| Canned Labor | Origin Unknown, Afri(can), Mexi(can), Etc. Labor | |
| Carnie | A lot of mexicans are carnies. | |
| Chalupa | The popular Mexican food dish | |
| Cheech | Famous Mexican Cheech Marin | |
| Chili Choker | A term used in one of the Cheech & Chong movies | |
| Cholo | A term used to refer to Mexican gangsters. | |
| Chuco | Laredo Used to describe gang bangers. Comes from the word Pachuco | |
| Chunt | Comes from 'chuntaro' meaning bad-dressed Mexican | |
| Clown-Car | Used to describe the overcrowded vehicles of migrant workers. | |
| Corn | From Mexi-Corn, from Southern California reference to Mexicans picking corn or other produce. | |
| DampBack | Part Mexican, not quite wet. | |
| Dirty Sanchez | Common hispanic name. | |
| Fence Fairy | Reference to border crossing. | |
| Fence-Hopper | Mexicans hopping fences to get into the U.S. | |
| Fesskin | Fuckin' messkin (mexican) | |
| Field Rat | Working in Migrant Fields | |
| FOF | Fresh Over the Fence. Refrence to crossing the border from Mexico to US. | |
| Four Footer | Ususally used when referring to illegal immigrant workers. "I'm gonna go down to 7-11 tomorrow morning, to pick up a four-footer." Because mexicans are short. | |
| Gordita | Comes from the Taco Bell food. Means "large" or "fat" in Spanish. | |
| Greaser | Used as early as the battle of the Alamo in 1836. | |
| Jumping Bean | Jumping beans are popular among Mexicans. | |
| Killer Bee | Refers to the fact that like the insect, they too have been migrating out of Mexico into Texas. | |
| Landscaper | Mexicans do a lot of landscaping. Similar to "landscraper." | |
| Lawnmower | A large portion of the landscapers are Mexican/Hispanic. | |
| Lubricano | Variant of greaser. | |
| Manuel Labor | Mexicans residing in the United States are used predominantly for manual labor. Manuel is a common hispanic name. | |
| Mehi | X's (like J's) are pronounced in Spanish like an English H. Thus this slur is a mockery of their pronounciation. | |
| Mexcrement | Obvious combination of "Mexican" and "excrement" | |
| Mexi-Ho's | Term to describe Mexican girls who get pregnant at an early age. | |
| Mexican't | Based on the stereotype that Mexicans are lazy. | |
| Migger | Mexicans/Hispanics who act black. | |
| Miguel | Stereotypical name for Mexicans | |
| Mo | Acronym for Mexican Orderly: Used in jails to refer to mexican trustees. | |
| Modern Farm Equipment | Many Mexicans work in agriculture today. Evolved from the "Antique Farm Equipment" slur for Blacks. | |
| Mudslide | What a jailbreak of Mexicans looks like. | |
| Olympican | From the joke "Why are there no Mexicans in the olympics? Because every Mexican who can run, jump, or swim is in this country!" | |
| Pachuco | A gang of Mexicans living in California in the 1940s | |
| Pool-digger | Another reference to the manual labor many of them do in the States. | |
| Potato | A Mexican-American that has lost their heritage. Brown on the outside; White on the inside. | |
| River Nigger | Self-explanatory | |
| Roach | They "infest" places | |
| Roadblock | Used against Mexicans and undocumented immigrants, referencing the perception that immigration enforcement creates roadblocks, or the visual stereotype of Hispanic workers standing on street corners. | |
| Scrap | Slur used by Mexican gang members to degrade other members. | |
| Soak | Much like a wetback, when they cross the Rio Grande river their backs get soaked. | |
| Spicaninny | Young Mexican girls. Combination form of Spic and Picaninny. | |
| Spicet Fence | 10 mexicans lined up side by side at the border. | |
| Spread | They continue "spreading" across the United States. | |
| Taco Jockey | Self-explanatory | |
| Tex-mex | A person of hispanic lineage, hopefully Mexican, that is from Texas. | |
| Texican | Brown texans, usually illegal and doing drywall work. Technically: a Hispanic-American that lives in Texas | |
| Tire-Hugger | Method used to cross Rio Grande, floating on inner tubes and tires. | |
| Tonk | Illegal Mexican immigrants. "Tonk" is the sound that is made when the illegals are hit over the head with the large flashlights/batons that the US border patrolmen carry. | |
| Triathlete | Mexicans that can run, jump, or swim are already in the US. | |
| Vato | Originates from Chicano slang. In Spanish it means "guy". Can be compared with "dude". | |
| Wadie | The Rio Grande is so shallow now that illegals just have to wade across. | |
| Wetback | Highly offensive slur against Mexican and undocumented immigrants crossing the US-Mexico border. References the crossing of the Rio Grande river and the wetness of the crossing. The term was also used in Operation Wetback, a 1954 US Immigration and Naturalization Service operation. | |
| Wetvac | A play on wetback. Many Mexicans who have illegaly entered the country take cleaning jobs. |