Yankophilic

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adjective

Fond of or admiring the United States or American culture.

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Meanings

adjectiveYankophilic (not comparable)
  1. informalnot comparableFond of or admiring the United States or American culture.

    The local, predominantly white bourgeoisie tended to disparage salsa as música de monos—monkey music—just as in Puerto Rico, affluent, Yankophilic rock fans (rockeros) deprecated salsa lovers by the similarly racist term cocolos (loosely, “coconut-heads”).

    1995, Peter Manuel, “Latin Music in the New World Order: Salsa & Beyond”, in Ron Sakolsky, Fred Wei-han Ho, editors, Sounding Off!: Music As Subversion/Resistance/Revolution, Brooklyn, New York, NY: Autonomedia, →ISBN, page 279

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
yankophile

Origin

From Yank + -o- + -philic.

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Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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