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pachuco

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7 lettersPronunciation /pəˈt͡ʃuːkəʊ/Part of speech nounSorted acchopuStarts with PEnds with O0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a Mexican-American teenager who belongs to a neighborhood gang and who dresses in showy clothes

Word origin

From Mexican Spanish pachuco (“flashily dressed”).

Used in a sentence

  • Now they saw that Terry was Mexican, a Pachuco wildcat; and that her boy was worse than that.
  • They asked him if he was a pachuco. He said all the pachucos he knew of lived in El Paso. He told em he didn’t know any Mexican pachucos.
  • Like the zoot suit, the Pachuco caló was adopted by a large part of the Chicano youth who did not, in essence, identify themselves as Pachucos.

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