Words similar to pocho
Example sentences for: pocho
How can you use “pocho” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
In Los Angeles, the writer Lalo Lopez has created a comic industry based on pocho caricatures that includes a comic strip, political cartoons, Pocho Productions, an Internet web page, Pocho Magazine, a political satire zine, and a calendar.
See also Agringado; Carpas; Pocho; El Teatro Campesino
Sometimes this kind of speech is called Spanglish, or Chicano Spanish, or just pocho talk.
A Chicano who does not speak fluent Spanish may be said to speak pocho Spanish, but the reverse is never stated about a Mexican who cannot speak fluent English.
Tin Tan made several Mexican films portraying the Mexican American pocho who code-switches between English and Spanish, and speaks caló.