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Yankophilic

Yankophilic adjective: fond of or admiring the United States or American culture.

Adjective

Yankophilic (not comparable)

  1. (informal) Fond of or admiring the United States or American culture.
    • 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”).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...

Origin of Yankophilic

From Yank + -o- + -philic.

Questions about Yankophilic

What does Yankophilic mean?
Yankophilic means fond of or admiring the United States or American culture.
What part of speech is Yankophilic?
Yankophilic is an adjective.

Words near Yankophilic in the dictionary

  1. yankisms
  2. Yankland
  3. Yanko
  4. Yankophile
  5. Yankophiles
  6. Yankophilic
  7. Yankos
  8. Yankovic
  9. Yankovich
  10. Yankoviches
  11. Yankowski

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