(chiefly, US) Of Latin American descent, Hispanic.
She called Ottinger a "tool" of the business community and Lopez a "box checker,” apparently meaning that he was only nominally Latino and that he had acted in a way that was detrimental to the interests of Latinos.
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(chiefly, US) A person, especially and usually (interpreted as) a male, from Latin America, a Hispanic person. (Compare Latina.).
Latinos have quickly become the largest ethnic minority in the United States.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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