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Chicano Slang in Old-School Hip-Hop: The Words Kid Frost, Cypress Hill and Mellow Man Ace Put on the Radio
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Add a word/Sounds like "moh" (as in "more") + "HAH" (as in "hard") + "doh" (as in "door")/
Meaning
A historically pejorative term in Chicano vocabulary referring to an undocumented person who swam across the Rio Grande to enter the United States. It literally means "wet" because they came out of the water. The word carried stigma for decades, but in Chicano communities it has been reclaimed with pride: "soy mojado y qué" is a common line in corridos and Chicano rap. Use with care: context changes everything.
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“My grandpa crossed as a mojado in the 70s.”
“It depends on who says it and how.”
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/Sounds like "moh" (as in "more") + "HAH" (as in "hard") + "doh" (as in "door")/
Meaning
A historically pejorative term in Chicano vocabulary referring to an undocumented person who swam across the Rio Grande to enter the United States. It literally means "wet" because they came out of the water. The word carried stigma for decades, but in Chicano communities it has been reclaimed with pride: "soy mojado y qué" is a common line in corridos and Chicano rap. Use with care: context changes everything.
Examples
“My grandpa crossed as a mojado in the 70s.”
“It depends on who says it and how.”
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Regional synonyms
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