Example sentences for: pachuco

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

  • He was an actor and performer who dressed as a stereotypical pachuco and zoot-suiter.

  • A person from El Paso was referred to as del pachuco.

  • The vocabulary of Chicano Spanish is congested with Old World words, words from the pachuco era, and consequently heavily influenced by caló.

  • 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).

  • 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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