Pachuco

Now they saw that Terry was Mexican, a Pachuco wildcat; and that her boy was worse than that.

I moved farther and farther into the Chicano community. I took Spanish in school and found willing tutors among my friends, who taught me a real-life version of the standard textbook language. I began to dress and comb my hair in the pachuco style of the day. I acquired the social customs and mannerisms of those around me.

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.

Like the zoot suit, the Pachuco caló was adopted by a large part of the Chicano youth who did not, in essence, identify themselves as Pachucos.