Definition of Pachuco

1. Noun. A Mexican-American teenager who belongs to a neighborhood gang and who dresses in showy clothes.

Generic synonyms: Adolescent, Stripling, Teen, Teenager

Definition of Pachuco

1. Noun. A Mexican-American, especially a juvenile delinquent in the Los Angeles area. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pachuco

1. a flashy Mexican-American youth [n -COS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pachuco

pachaks
pachalic
pachalics
pachamanca
pachamancas
pachas
pachinko
pachinkos
pachisi
pachisis
pachnolite
pachometer
pachonta
pachouli
pachoulis
pachuco (current term)
pachucos
pachy-
pachyblepharon
pachycarpous
pachycaul
pachycauls
pachycephalia
pachycephalic
pachycephalosaur
pachycephalosaurus
pachycephaly
pachycheilia
pachychromatic

Literary usage of Pachuco

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of California by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1888)
"pachuco, Bolsa de S. Felipe, Mont., 65, conf. by all the courts as one of the few perfect titles, juridical possession under a grant of "40. ..."

2. The Progress of America, from the Discovery by Columbus to the Year 1846 by John Macgregor (1847)
"The road of pachuco, which leads to the celebrated mines of real del Monte, by the Cerro Ventoso, covered with oak, cypress, and rose-trees, ..."

3. The United States Vs. Andres Castillero: "New Almaden" : Transcript of the by Andrés Castillero, United States (1859)
"I did, in the City of Mexico, and went with him to visit the mines of pachuco and Real Del Monte. Ques. 223.—And none of these persons gave you the ..."

4. Selections from the Works of the Baron de Humboldt, Relating to the Climate by Alexander von Humboldt, John Taylor (1824)
"... and the Puerto de Reyes, near Bata, through hills scarcely 262 feet above the pavement ot the great square (place) of Mexico; 4. the road of pachuco, ..."

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