Example sentences for: caló

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

  • Caló became the dialect of the underworld of Mexico City and migrated into the Southwest, as some believe, through the city of El Paso.

  • Some of these idioms are the pachuco dialect, Chicano Spanish, New Mexico colonial Spanish, south Texas vocabulary, caló, and the argot of the tirilones of El Paso.

  • Caló was originally the language of the Spanish gypsies, or a dialect of Spanish showing traces of many languages acquired by the gypsies throughout their world wanderings.

  • Tin Tan made several Mexican films portraying the Mexican American pocho who code-switches between English and Spanish, and speaks caló.

  • Most of the studies provide examples of the male use of caló, but there is recent research that shows that female cholas and pachucas also have an extensive vocabulary in caló.


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