Mexican American
English
editNoun
editMexican 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.
Further reading
edit- “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.