pachuco

From Spanish pachuco.

• IPA^(key): /pəˈt͡ʃuːkəʊ/

pachuco (plural pachucos)

1. a Mexican-American, especially a juvenile delinquent in the Los Angeles area
   • 1998, Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain

     They asked him if he was a pachuco. He said all the pachucos he knew of lived in El Paso. He told em he didn’t know any Mexican pachucos.

2. an argot spoken by that group, sometimes known as caló

• pachuco on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• capouch, coach up

Of uncertain etymology. Hypotheses include:

• From a Nahuatl word.
• A shortening of pa El Chuco ("to El Paso").
• From Pachuca, Mexico.
• From pocho.

• IPA^(key): /paˈt͡ʃuko/

pachuco (feminine singular pachuca, masculine plural pachucos, feminine plural pachucas)

1. (Mexico) flashy, flashily dressed
2. (Costa Rica) slang (often considered low-class)

pachuco m (plural pachucos, feminine pachuca, feminine plural pachucas)

1. (Costa Rica) uneducated person from the city who uses city slang