pachuco
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Spanish pachuco
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /pəˈʧuːkəʊ/
[edit] Noun
pachuco (plural pachucos)
- A Mexican-American, especially a juvenile delinquent in the Los Angeles area.
- 1998. 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
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[edit] Spanish
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /paˈʧuko/
[edit] Adjective
pachuco m. (feminine pachucha, masculine plural pachucos, feminine plural pachuchas)
[edit] Noun
pachuco m. (plural pachucos, feminine singular pachuca, feminine plural pachucas)
- (Costa Rica) uneducated person from the city who uses city slang
