Definitions for pachuco

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. pachuco(noun)

    a Mexican-American teenager who belongs to a neighborhood gang and who dresses in showy clothes

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  1. pachuco(Noun)

    A Mexican-American, especially a juvenile delinquent in the Los Angeles area.

    1998. They asked him if he was a pachuco. He said all the pachucos he knew of lived in El Paso. He told em he didnu2019t know any Mexican pachucos. u2014 Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain


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