noun
Street Slang
calcos
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Pachuco Caló for shoes — especially shined-up dress shoes.
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Shoes — specifically the sharp dress shoes that finished off a zoot suit. By extension, any pair of shoes in old-school Chicano talk.
“Check out the calcos on that vato, polished to the moon.”
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calcos In A Sentence
Check out the calcos on that vato, polished to the moon.
Origin & Usage
Pachuco Caló of the 1940s zoot-suit era — Mexican-American street slang for shoes, especially the polished dress shoes worn with a tacuche. Survives in lowrider and old-school Chicano vocabulary.
Variants
calco
People Also Ask
What does "calcos" mean?
Calcos is Pachuco Caló slang for shoes — especially shined-up dress shoes.
How do you use "calcos" in a sentence?
"He rolled up in his sharpest calcos, shined to a mirror."
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