Example sentences for: pachuco

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

  • Young men who relocated and settled in Los Angeles, even for short periods of time, upon returning home to the small towns of the Southwest, would spread the pachuco beliefs and jargon to their communities.

  • The bato loco, or vato loco, is the descendent of the pachuco and a close relation of today’s cholo (urban youth).

  • Expressions and vocabulary used by Chicanos today come from the pachuco argot of the 1940s.

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

  • According to Alfredo Mirandé, “The pachuco has been an especially visible symbol of cultural autonomy and resistance.


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