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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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