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:

Barker’s glossary of pachuco words from Arizona shows that the name Califa, without the s, was used to mean a boy from California.
Some social scientists believe that the pachuco cross was meant to symbolize violence and membership in a gang.
I have actually become quite fascinated by this magazine and was going to dig out the latest issue to report on exactly which babes in bikini tops and pachuco pants were jutting their hips out beside which gleaming, curvaceous, cherried-out 20-ton American car.
Expressions and vocabulary used by Chicanos today come from the pachuco argot of the 1940s.
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.