Example sentences for: bato

How can you use “bato” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • See also Bato; Cholos

  • In the novel The Road to Tamazunchale, Ron Arias creates a streetwise character, a bato named Mario, who acts as a sidekick to the main character, Fausto.

  • One character is named Bato, as in bato loco (crazy guy), a phrase of contemporary usage among Chicanos today.

  • In standard Spanish, bato means “simpleton” or “foolish fellow,” and it has been in use in rural areas of New Mexico since the seventeenth century.

  • Bato was a word incorporated into the pachuco jargon of the 1940s, and it is still very much a part of Chicano vocabulary today.


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