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Mexican Americans

Mexican Americans is the plural of Mexican American.

Meaning of Mexican American

Noun

Mexican American (plural Mexican Americans)

  1. An American of Mexican descent.
    Synonyms:
    Mexamerican, Chicano
  2. (US, nonstandard, proscribed) Any person of Latin American descent in the United States.
    • Near-synonyms: (offensive) wetback, (offensive) beaner, (offensive) illegal
    Synonyms:
    wetback, beaner, illegal

Questions about Mexican Americans

What is Mexican Americans the plural of?
Mexican Americans is the plural of Mexican American.

Words near Mexican Americans in the dictionary

  1. Mexia
  2. Mexica
  3. Mexicali
  4. Mexican
  5. Mexican American
  6. Mexican Americans
  7. Mexican bamboo
  8. Mexican bean
  9. Mexican bean beetle
  10. Mexican bean beetles
  11. Mexican beans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Mexican Americans (page history and authors); Mexican American (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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