pachuco

IPA: pʌtʃˈukoʊ

(US, countable) A Mexican American, especially a juvenile delinquent in the Los Angeles area.
(uncountable) An argot spoken by that group, sometimes known as caló.

Examples of "pachuco" in Sentences

Skogie and the Flaming Pachucos.
It is a product of zoot suit or Pachuco culture.
I put a bit of pachuco Canal Street slang talking.
A person from El Paso was referred to as del pachuco.
I moved the part about the Zoot Suit to the Pachuco article.
Pachuca is an actual term that is the female form of the pachuco.
This is a city, not equal to a Pachuco in the USA sense of the word.
I think it will make the Pachuco article more balanced in many ways.
This is the cover art for the single Pachuco by the artist Kumbia Kings.
Tin Tan played a 'pachuco' character appearing with a zoot suit in his films.
(Let's go to El Paso), "and correctly so on your part, the word pachuco was born.
Subsequently, newspapers dropped the word "Mexican" from their reports, and substituted, instead, the term pachuco or zoot suiter.
I appreciated your explanation of the word pachuco to Still Terrified in East LA, noting that it is derived from our reference to our beloved city of El Paso.
If the governor had the power simply to round up every pachuco in the state and put them in camps, like Roosevelt has done with the Japanese, I think Olson would exercise the right in a heartbeat.
Bracero and pachuco, I know were actual terms used at the time and not necessarily full-on racial slurs though obviously used so by whatever pus-filled nutsack of a racist, sexist lunatic wrote this mess.