Meanings
- neologismnot comparableChicano or Chicana (and of any gender).
Chicanx and Latinx
2016, Dána-Ain Davis, Christa Craven, Feminist Ethnography: Thinking through Methodologies, Challenges,..., →ISBN2 more examples
By reframing the archive through a rereading (or reinterpretation) of The Conquest, Sara enables Chicanx collective memory to provide an entirely new context (Chicanx and Latin American) that the creators of the archive never imagined[.]
2016, Roberta Rice, Gordana Yovanovich, Re-Imagining Community and Civil Society in Latin America, →ISBNWe can now legitimately look to the Americas, to the indigenous, to the African American, to the Chicanx, or to the Puerto Riqueña to inform new understandings of rhetorical functions and histories.
2016, Iris D. Ruiz, Reclaiming Composition for Chicano/as and Other Ethnic Minorities, →ISBN
plural Chicanxs
- neologismA Chicano or Chicana (of any gender).
It was seen as negative until Chicanxs took it back.
2015 December, Hasta Mas alla De Los Gritos, page 41 more example
[…] Chicanxs are aware of past struggles over space and draw on them in contemporary struggles, which focus on gentrification and its alternative, “gentefication” (the uplift of the neighborhood by locals and other Chicanxs and Latinxs)[…]
2023 April 3, Catherine Whittaker, Eveline Dürr, Jonathan Alderman, Carolin Luiprecht, Watchful Lives in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBNSynonyms: Chican@
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA Chicano or Chicana (of any gender).
Origin
The gender-neutral suffix -x replaces the gendered suffixes -a and -o.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Polish chicanx
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Cite this entry
Chicanx. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Chicanx
“Chicanx.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Chicanx. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Chicanx,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Chicanx.
Source: Chicanx on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.