Well attestedNamed from the place
Mexican wave
noun · first attested 1986
British television named it for Mexico; American crowds had done it for years.
The ripple of spectators standing and sitting that travels around a stadium.
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- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
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- 1986
- Part of speech
- noun
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- In English
Mexican wave
Broadcasts of the 1986 World Cup in Mexico gave the stunt its British name, and it stuck across the Commonwealth. In North America it is simply the wave, traced to college and professional games in the early 1980s.
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Mexico
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