Mexican

adjective3

1. •
   from Mexico, or connected with that country or the people who live there
2. •
   (no longer used) Of or pertaining to the Mexica people.
3. •
   (no longer used) Of or pertaining to the Nahuatl language.

   • The language most universally diffused over the new continent, is the Aztec or Mexican. — 1810

noun8

1. •
   A person from the country of Mexico or of Mexican descent.

   • The Mexican levelled nine minutes from time after Steven Gerrard, making his first start since undergoing groin surgery in April, put Liverpool ahead with a 68th-minute free-kick. — 2011
2. •
   Mexican or Mexican-derived cuisine; whether traditional Mexican food or Tex-Mex, etc.

   • I'm hungry. Want to go out for Mexican?
3. •
   The Mexican dialect of Spanish.

   • "You see, I never learned to speak Spanish, but speak Mexican fluently," he says disarmingly. — 1970
4. •
   (slang, offensive) A person from, or of descent from, any Spanish-speaking country.

   • What kind of Mexican are you?
5. •
   (Australia, slang) A Victorian (a person from the state of Victoria).
6. •
   (Australia, slang) A person from either of the southern states of New South Wales and Victoria.
7. •
   (no longer used) A Mexica; an Aztec.

   • The Aztechese, or Mexicans, were the last who arrived in Anahuac. — 1782
8. •
   (no longer used) The Nahuatl language.

   • Painala was in the Mexican province of Coatzacualco: she was accordingly able to speak Mexican. — 1856

noun1

1. •
   A Mexican.

   • Lesbian and gay Mexican@s organized to make "gay" rights one of the many demands voiced by a huge and courageous student protest in Mexico City. — 2006