Arabtino

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noun

A person of mixed Arab and Latino ancestry.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

nounArabtino (plural Arabtinos)

plural Arabtinos

  1. USA person of mixed Arab and Latino ancestry.

    They're late enough in 24's run so that the formula insured a minimum of dead episodes, but before the show turned into a lazy parody that marked time between Jack going all Torquemada on some unsuspecting Arabtino.

    2010 June 18, Justin Robinson, “Bauer v. Westen”, in The Satellite Show, archived from the original on 24 Nov 2020
adjectiveArabtino (not comparable)
  1. USnot comparableHaving mixed Arab and Latino ancestry.

    Battling it out are frontrunners Ammar Campa-Najjar, an "Arabtino" American former Obama Administration official, and school board member Josh Butner.

    2018 June 1, “Criminal Records”, in Countdown, volume 18, number 1, Arab American Institute Foundation
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    I believe her empathy lies in our tie as first‐generation college Latino (Arabtino) doctoral educators navigating a majority upper middle class white campus.

    2016 August 5, Yamil Avivi, Latino/a Youth Subcultures in Elizabeth, New Jersey: Memory, Spacemaking, and Citizenship, 1980s-1990s (unpublished PhD thesis; PDF), →DOI, archived from the original on 24 Nov 2020, Acknowledgements, page ⅳ

Origin

Blend of Arab + Latino. Coined by Stephen Colbert in 2004 for an interview with Sam Jammal, an Arabtino and delegate to the 2004 Democratic National Convention, broadcast on The Daily Show.

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APA

Arabtino. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Arabtino

MLA

“Arabtino.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Arabtino. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Arabtino,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Arabtino.

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