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Arabtino

Arabtino noun: a person of mixed Arab and Latino ancestry.

Noun

Arabtino (plural Arabtinos)

  1. (US) A person of mixed Arab and Latino ancestry.
    • They're late enough in 24's run so that the formula insured a minimum of dead episodes, but before the show turned into a lazy parody that marked time between Jack going all Torquemada on some unsuspecting Arabtino.2010 June 18, Justin Robinson, “Bauer v. Westen”, in The Satellite Show, archived from the original on 24 Nov 2020

Adjective

Arabtino (not comparable)

  1. (US) Having mixed Arab and Latino ancestry.
    • I believe her empathy lies in our tie as first‐generation college Latino (Arabtino) doctoral educators navigating a majority upper middle class white campus.2016 August 5, Yamil Avivi, Latino/a Youth Subcultures in Elizabeth, New Jersey: Memory, Spacemaking, and Citizenship, 1980s-1990s (unpublished PhD thesis; PDF), →DOI, archived from the original on...
    • Battling it out are frontrunners Ammar Campa-Najjar, an "Arabtino" American former Obama Administration official, and school board member Josh Butner.2018 June 1, “Criminal Records”, in Countdown, volume 18, number 1, Arab American Institute Foundation

Forms of Arabtino

pluralArabtinos

Origin of Arabtino

Blend of Arab + Latino. Coined by Stephen Colbert in 2004 for an interview with Sam Jammal, an Arabtino and delegate to the 2004 Democratic National Convention, broadcast on The Daily Show.

Questions about Arabtino

What does Arabtino mean?
Arabtino means a person of mixed Arab and Latino ancestry.
What part of speech is Arabtino?
Arabtino can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of Arabtino?
The plural of Arabtino is Arabtinos.

Words near Arabtino in the dictionary

  1. arabophobic
  2. arabophone
  3. arabophones
  4. Arabs
  5. Arabsat
  6. Arabtino
  7. Arabtinos
  8. Araby
  9. araca
  10. araca-boi
  11. Aracaju

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