"wetback" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "First used in the 1920s from the presumed effects of swimming or wading across the Rio Grande. Used by the U.S. Government in 1954 with Operation Wetback.",
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        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "word": "illegal alien"
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            "Offensive terms",
            "Terms by usage"
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        {
          "text": "1920, Temporary admission of illiterate Mexican laborers: Hearings before the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, House of Representatives, 66th Congress, 2nd Session, p. 141,\nMr. HUDSPETH. […] I stood here and did all in my power to keep the “wetback” […] from coming across. And I stand here to-day asking for that.\nThe CHAIRMAN. […] What is a “wetback”?\nMr. HUDSPETH. You have heard a “wetback” described; he is a fellow that crosses the river surreptitiously."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1950 March 27, “United Nations: Objectivity”, in Time",
          "text": "The charges against the U.S. had cited cases of peonage and labor under forced contracts in Maine, Connecticut, Texas, Arkansas, Georgia and California. They had revealed that thousands of “wetbacks” (i.e., Mexican laborers who wade the Rio Grande in search of work in the U.S.) lived in squalor and poverty, sometimes were paid as little as $8 a week.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Saul Bellow, The Actual, New York: Viking, page 12",
          "text": "He went through a couple of bottles of wine and made a speech denouncing wetbacks and Asian immigrants.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, John Irving, chapter 2, in Avenue of Mysteries, Canada: Knopf",
          "text": "A successful wetback, the limo driver was thinking—that was his assessment of his Mexican-American passenger.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A Mexican or Central American who illegally enters the United States of America from its southern border."
      ],
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        [
          "illegal",
          "illegal"
        ],
        [
          "United States of America",
          "United States of America"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(derogatory slang) A Mexican or Central American who illegally enters the United States of America from its southern border."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "mojado"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "slang"
      ],
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "Mexican or Central American who illegally enters the United States",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "mojado"
        },
        {
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "Mexican or Central American who illegally enters the United States",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "espalda mojada"
        }
      ]
    },
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      "glosses": [
        "A person of the mestizo race; a mojado."
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          "mestizo",
          "mestizo"
        ],
        [
          "mojado",
          "mojado"
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        "(derogatory slang) A person of the mestizo race; a mojado."
      ],
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        "derogatory",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "ipa": "/wɛtbæk/"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
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      "enpr": "wĕtbăk"
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  "wikipedia": [
    "1920",
    "Operation Wetback",
    "Rio Grande",
    "wetback (slur)"
  ],
  "word": "wetback"
}

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    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
    "English ethnic slurs",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "First used in the 1920s from the presumed effects of swimming or wading across the Rio Grande. Used by the U.S. Government in 1954 with Operation Wetback.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wetbacks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
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    {
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    },
    {
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    }
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        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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          "text": "1920, Temporary admission of illiterate Mexican laborers: Hearings before the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, House of Representatives, 66th Congress, 2nd Session, p. 141,\nMr. HUDSPETH. […] I stood here and did all in my power to keep the “wetback” […] from coming across. And I stand here to-day asking for that.\nThe CHAIRMAN. […] What is a “wetback”?\nMr. HUDSPETH. You have heard a “wetback” described; he is a fellow that crosses the river surreptitiously."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1950 March 27, “United Nations: Objectivity”, in Time",
          "text": "The charges against the U.S. had cited cases of peonage and labor under forced contracts in Maine, Connecticut, Texas, Arkansas, Georgia and California. They had revealed that thousands of “wetbacks” (i.e., Mexican laborers who wade the Rio Grande in search of work in the U.S.) lived in squalor and poverty, sometimes were paid as little as $8 a week.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Saul Bellow, The Actual, New York: Viking, page 12",
          "text": "He went through a couple of bottles of wine and made a speech denouncing wetbacks and Asian immigrants.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, John Irving, chapter 2, in Avenue of Mysteries, Canada: Knopf",
          "text": "A successful wetback, the limo driver was thinking—that was his assessment of his Mexican-American passenger.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A Mexican or Central American who illegally enters the United States of America from its southern border."
      ],
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          "Mexican",
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          "illegal",
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        [
          "United States of America",
          "United States of America"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(derogatory slang) A Mexican or Central American who illegally enters the United States of America from its southern border."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "mojado"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "slang"
      ]
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      "glosses": [
        "A person of the mestizo race; a mojado."
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          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
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          "mestizo",
          "mestizo"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(derogatory slang) A person of the mestizo race; a mojado."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    },
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Mexican or Central American who illegally enters the United States",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mojado"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Mexican or Central American who illegally enters the United States",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "espalda mojada"
    }
  ],
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    "1920",
    "Operation Wetback",
    "Rio Grande",
    "wetback (slur)"
  ],
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}