Example sentences for: pachuco

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

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

  • The pachuca was the counterpart of the pachuco of the 1940s but also the home-girl archetype that comes together in the young Chicana growing up in an urban ghettoized environment.

  • The pachuco dialect has been especially influenced by caló; it was and still is primarily a male speech and if used by women they were considered to be street women or girlfriends of gang members.

  • Although almost any urban Chicano who was young in the 1940s was affected by the style and language of the pachuco, the stereotypic pachuco was often associated with violence and deviancy.

  • 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.


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