Mexican beans n.pl.— «Two San Francisco newspaper reporters, citing 1,000 pages of documents and interviews with more than 200 people, alleged that baseball’s potential all-time career home run king bulked up on various amounts of...
Nuevo Orleans n.— «Halliburton, the energy services company with ties to Vice President Dick Cheney, has bused thousands of Mexican migrants into Louisiana rather than hiring local workers. Bitter New Orleans residents have taken to...
auto chocolate n.— «They sell what are known here as “autos chocolates,” coined because these aging used cars are like a box of chocolates: You never know what you’ll get.…In 2001 the Mexican government offered an...
wila n. a surreptitious note (sent by or between prisoners); a kite. Editorial Note: Pronounced “WHEE-lah.” Etymological Note: This is an Anglicized or Spanglish spelling of the Mexican Spanish güila or huila, that, according to...
draw down v. phr.— «This doof locked and loaded with no prior discussion. My response was to draw down on him. There we stood in a dumb-ass Mexican standoff.» —“Let’s arm Joe and Jane!” by Bob Kirkpatrick Usenet: misc...
suckburb n.— «“I feel like a gay, Mexican pioneer,” explains Ledesma, who grew up in the “suckburbs,” as he calls them: Montebello, La Puente, Fontana.» —“24 Seven: Rainbow Bright Eyexyk” by Seven...