Now they saw that Terry was Mexican, a Pachuco wildcat; and that her boy was worse than that.
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Pachuco
/pəˈt͡ʃuːkəʊ/
Synonyms for "pachuco" (8 found)
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Closest matches (2)
Noun(2 words)
chicano youthflamboyant
Strong matches (2)
Noun(2 words)
pachuco fashionpachuco style
Related words (4)
Noun(4 words)
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More general
12 entriesadolescentcultural descriptorcultural epithetcultural stylefashion descriptorstriplingsubcultural termsubculture memberteenteenageryouth fashionyouth subculture
More specific
7 entriespachuco dresspachuco slangpachuco-esque tailoringpachuco-inspiredpachuco-inspired silhouetteszoot suiterzoot-suited
Collocations
8 entriespachuco aestheticspachuco attirepachuco culturepachuco fashionpachuco identitypachuco slangpachuco stylepachuco zoot suit
Inflections
3 entriesDerivations
6 entriesSample sentences
4 total sentences available.
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.
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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.
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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.
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