Hispanicus Hystericus

A disproportional emotional over-reaction to a crisis (or event) caused by an overstimulation of the limbic system that renders efficient function of the pre-frontal cortex extremely difficult.

Bystander #1: "Excuse me... why are they yelling and screaming like that? Are they OK?"

Bystander #2: "They have Hispanicus Hystericus. They'll be OK as soon as they calm down."

by Dr. Carey Perkins April 30, 2022

Status Hispanicus

When a large hispanic family gets together at a hospital to support a member of their family with a minor injury and have a sustained freak out attack to show the support.

Status Hispanicus. See above

by emc2nh August 23, 2009

Hispania

Hispania is the name the Romans gave to the Iberian Peninsula (SW Europe). In this peninsula are nowadays Spain and Portugal (Spain=España=Hispania). The Romans also called Britannia (now Britain) or Germania (now Germany), or Italia (Italy), etc.

Great Roman Emperors, as Trajan or Hadrian, were born in Spain, formerly called Hispania.

by Hadrianvs February 17, 2008

hispanic

A racial group created by the U.S. government to put all people who descend from Spanish speaking countries into one meaningless group. Hispanic is NOT a racial group. They can be white, black, native american, asian, or any combination of these peoples. Hispanic countries are just as racially diverse as the United States, thus this term has no real meaning.

Moron says: Why does he look white? I thought he was hispanic?

by Cuban_steve September 4, 2005

hispandering

Hispandering is the combination of the words hispanic and pandering. It is used to describe when a politician or political candidate panders to the Hispanic community, or is seen as submissive to the political wants of the Hispanic community.

Man I thought Marco Rubio was strong on immigration, but he's just hispandering for votes...

by hispandering June 20, 2016

Hispander

Verb: to Hispander means to pander to Hispanics.

Noun: an Hispander is one who panders to Hispanics.

The term was created by Mickey Kraus (Slate Magazine), popularized by Linda Bentley (Sonoran News), and is currently practiced by many low-life politicians.

Dick Gephardt's recent Hispandering proposal to "legalize undocumented immigrants who have lived in the United States for five years and worked in the country for two years . . ."

by Mark Yannone February 17, 2008

hispanic time

It refers to the amount of time that a Hispanic, particularly Spanish people, say they'll be somewhere and the time they are there. If you're gonna meet them at 16:00, the interval is from 16:20 to 18:30 usually, but be sure that they'll show up at least 20min late, i've lived in Spain for 18 years now and I can swear it's always like that.

(this is a real conversation I had with a Spanish friend)
him- Why are you mad at me now?
me- is your fuckin' watch broken or what? you said you were going to come at nine and it's ten!
him- I'm not late enough! I'd maybe be late if I had shown up at twelve.

hispanic time...

by FrankieHamish October 24, 2006