Mexican American

[ mek-si-kuhn-uh-mer-i-kuhn ]

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noun

a citizen or resident of the U.S. of Mexican birth or descent; Chicano.

adjective

of or relating to Mexican Americans or their culture; Chicano.
Mexican-American, occurring between the United States and Mexico:
The trade agreement lead to an increase in eighteen-wheelers crossing the Mexican-American border.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Mexican American¹

First recorded in 1950–55

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Example Sentences

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He got his professional start at the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, a Latino civil rights organization, starting as an intern and eventually getting hired as a staff attorney.

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Thomas Saenz, president and general counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, said his former employee is well suited to handle whatever battles lie ahead.

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The pride and the support and the love of a Mexican American family fortified me.

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It starts with both men’s early lives, the forces that shaped them and the mindbogglingly serendipitous paths that brought the California-born Mexican American Marin together with the Edmonton-born Chong, the son of Chinese and Scotch-Irish parents, in a Vancouver nightclub called Shanghai Junk in 1968.

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I’m not Mexican American, but I was deeply touched as someone who exists as a part of a diaspora.

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