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URDU
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Roman Urdu:
ghair qanooni muhajir (tehqeer amez istilaah)
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ENGLISH
📚noun
wetback
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PRONUNCIATION
Standard: /ˈwɛtbæk/
Phonetic: /wet bak/
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DEFINITION
an offensive and disparaging slur for a Mexican living in the US, originally referring to those who swam across the Rio Grande
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES
The use of the term wetback is widely condemned as an offensive racial slur.
Language standards forbid using derogatory terms like wetback in media.
Historians study how derogatory labels like wetback emerged during border migrations.
He was reprimanded for using the insulting word wetback in conversation.
Modern legal terminology replaces derogatory terms like wetback with undocumented immigrant.
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SYNONYMS
illegal immigrant
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ANTONYMS
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