pachuco🔊

(US) A Mexican American, especially a juvenile delinquent in the Los Angeles area.

💬 Quotations

Now they saw that Terry was Mexican, a Pachuco wildcat; and that her boy was worse than that.

Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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.

Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain

An argot spoken by that group, sometimes known as caló.

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