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pachuco
- /pəˈt͡ʃuːkəʊ/
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From Mexican Spanish pachuco (“flashily dressed”).
noun pachucos
- A Mexican American, especially a juvenile delinquent in the Los Angeles area. Now they saw that Terry was Mexican, a Pachuco wildcat; and that her boy was worse than that.
- An argot spoken by that group, sometimes known as caló. 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.
Talk about this word "pachuco." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/pachuco. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. pachuco. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/pachuco "pachuco." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/pachuco.
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@misc{pachuco_2026,
title = {pachuco},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pachuco},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
