The word of the day is designed to broaden our grammatical horizons. Nothing is more impressive than casually spouting off 5-syllable masterpieces in mid-sentence – except maybe really big boobs… Anyway, every day I’ll post a new word for you to work into daily conversation so that you can wow friends, dazzle coworkers and confuse blonde girls and frat guys, because learning is fun and knowing is half the battle.
  

February 14, 2005

Wetback

Wet'back": n. "A person who enters the U.S. illegally, usually from Mexico, to take a temporary job."

I swear to God that I took that definition verbatim from my "New American Webster Handy College Dictionary" (third edition). Either I am hallucinating or it looks like the editors had some fun or were drunk while typing out the final copy... Wow.

I just realized that I forgot to use "wetback" in a sentence. There.

Beat it