Example sentences for: pachucos

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

  • It was originally used by the pachucos (1940s youths) in the jargon they developed in the 1930s.

  • The first appearance of pachucos was in the El Paso–Juárez area during the 1920s and early 1930s.

  • In his view, pachucos liked to stay in the jaula (cage, jail) so that they could “accumulate these ‘rays’ as souvenirs of their imprisonment” (1971, 142).

  • See also Bato; Cholos; Pachucos

  • Arthur Campa believes that pachucos originated as a linguistic group first and had no distinctive dress style.


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