Words similar to pachuco
Example sentences for: pachuco
How can you use “pachuco” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
The pachuco speech, a combination of English and Spanish, also called caló, was a fascinating fusion drawing from many linguistic sources.
Supposedly they were very streetwise and liked to hang out with their pachuco boyfriends.
Another good example of the life of a bato loco is “La Vida de un Bato Loco,” a short memoir written by an informant of Linda Katz, reproduced in her thesis on the pachuco language and culture written for a master’s degree at the University of California, Los Angeles.
During the 1940s a caricature of the pachuco was created for the Mexican media in the person of Tin Tan, whose real name was Germán Valdéz (1919–1973).
George Carpenter Barker pinpoints almost exactly where the pachuco jargon originated, from the 7-X gang who first met in the neighborhood of Florence and Eighth Streets in El Paso.