Example sentences for: pachucos

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

  • One is that the pachucos of the 1930s came from the city of Pachuca in the state of Hidalgo, Mexico.

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

  • 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.

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


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