Definitions for pelado
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1. Pelado

   In Mexican society, pelado is "a term invented to describe a certain class of urban 'bum' in Mexico in the 1920s."

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1. Pelado

   In Mexican society, pelado is "a term invented to describe a certain class of urban 'bum' in Mexico in the 1920s." Mexico has a long tradition of urban poverty, beginning with the léperos, a segregated caste of Mestizos, Central American people, and illegitimate Criollos during the colonial era. The léperos, viewed as unrespectable people by polite society, supported themselves as they could through vending or begging, but many resorted to crime. They established a thieves market across from the viceregal palace, which was later moved to the Tepito area of the working-class Colonia Guerrero. They spent much of their time in taverns, leading to the official promotion of theatre as an alternative. Initially, many of these plays were organized by the church, but the people soon set up their own theaters, where the humor of the taverns survived. The rowdy, often illegal stagings were no place for sophisticated plot lines or character development, and the carpa theatre relied heavily on stock characters who could deliver quick laughs. The pelado became one of them. Literally meaning "peeled", the term referred to the penniless urban slum-dwellers, uprooted from the countryside and un- and under-employed. Like the léperos before them, they represented an underprivileged element with criminal tendencies — a threat to Mexican society. But in addition to their predecessors' problems adjusting to urban life and surviving, the pelado of the early twentieth century was also wedged between traditional and modern societies. "Pelado" also means "cut hair", referring to the custom in jails and assistance institutions to cut the inmates' hair in order to prevent lice and other parasites. Thus, "pelado" becomes a catch-all term for low-class and low-culture people.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of pelado in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of pelado in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

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References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelado
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=pelado