noun
Street Slang
chuco
· noun · texas
Short for pachuco — also a nickname for El Paso.
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Definitions
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A pachuco — the 40s zoot-suit-and-Caló Chicano archetype. Sharp threads, sharper slang, a whole subculture that birthed the language half this list comes from.
“His tío was a real chuco back in the day, suit pressed every Saturday.”
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El Paso, Texas, nicknamed 'El Chuco' because pachuco culture was born there before migrating west to LA.
“He flew back to El Chuco for the holidays.”
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chuco In A Sentence
His tío was a real chuco back in the day, suit pressed every Saturday.
He flew back to El Chuco for the holidays.
Origin & Usage
Clipping of 'pachuco', the zoot-suited Mexican-American youth subculture that flowered in 1930s–40s El Paso and Los Angeles. El Paso itself got tagged 'El Chuco' as the movement's birthplace.
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