Example sentences for: pachuco

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

  • Haldeen Braddy discusses the origin of the word pachuco, providing several theories.

  • Pachucas knew the vernacular of the times, speaking pachuco and scandalizing their families.

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

  • 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.

  • Octavio Paz, much quoted, disparagingly discusses the phenomenon of the pachuco in his book The Labyrinth of Solitude, published in English in 1961.


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