Example sentences for: pachucos

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

  • The film Zoot Suit, written and directed by Luis Valdez in 1981, depicts the dress, language, and problems of Mexican American youth and especially pachucos in Los Angeles in the 1940s.

  • Pachucos were identifiable by their clothing, hairstyles, and a distinct language with its own vocabulary.

  • Braddy believes this well describes the pachucos of El Paso (1971).

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

  • These sources were southwestern Spanish, the older archaic Spanish from New Mexico, Mexican slang, standard Spanish from Mexico City, and also words invented by the pachucos themselves.


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