#chicano

The Rio Grande Valley — deep South Texas along the Mexico border.

Working a lowrider's hydraulic switches to bounce the car.

Caló for a girlfriend or a woman — Chicano for 'shorty'.

Chicano respelling of barrio — claimed turf.

Caló for a lowrider or car.

Caló for 'heads up' — stay sharp, watch your back.

Caló for 'no problem / no sweat' — literally 'no fart.'

Caló 'yes' — a stylish, affirmative 'sí'.

Chicano Caló shortening of San Antonio.

Caló for 'no way' — a flat Chicano refusal.

Junk, odds and ends, random clutter.

Caló for brother — blood-tight, family-close.

Emphatic Caló 'no' — the louder cousin of chale.

Pachuco Caló for a fancy fit — the zoot suit itself.

Nickname for El Paso, Texas — the birthplace of pachuco culture.

Caló for cheap, fake, low-grade — basically trash.

Caló for the cops — the law on your block.

Hydraulic suspension system on a lowrider.

Caló 'nope, no way' — rhyming play on 'nel' (no) and 'pastel' (cake).

Caló 'what's up?' — contraction of ¿qué hubo?

Caló 'later, dude' — the rhyming Chicano goodbye.

California — the Chicano/Caló way to say it.

Caló for a cigarette — the smoke on your lip.

Chicano all-purpose 'right on / alright / let's go'.

Caló for solid, tight, good — high praise on the Eastside.

A light-skinned, blond, or white person — Mexican-Spanish nickname.

Caló for money — cash, paper, the bag.

Pachuco Caló for shoes — especially shined-up dress shoes.

Caló for an old lady — wife, girlfriend, ride-or-die.

Someone from the Rio Grande Valley of deep South Texas.

Caló nickname for San Antonio, originally street slang for the county jail.

A car fitted with hydraulics — it 'has juice'.

Caló name for El Paso — the root of the word 'pachuco.'

San Antonio identity word — pure, exclusively, unmistakably local.

Pickup truck, in Tex-Mex Spanglish.

Caló for dude or guy — the OG East LA word for a man.

The neighbourhood — Spanish-speaking, often working-class.

Short for pachuco — also a nickname for El Paso.

Caló for 'dude' or 'that guy' — the classic East LA address.

Spanglish 'see you later' — I'll watch for you.