Crossword clues for pachuco
Wiktionary
n. A Mexican-American, especially a juvenile delinquent in the Los Angeles area.
WordNet
n. a Mexican-American teenager who belongs to a neighborhood gang and who dresses in showy clothes
Wikipedia
Pachuco refers to a particular old school subculture of Chicanos and Mexican-Americans associated with zoot suits, street gangs, nightlife, and flamboyant public behavior. The idea of the pachuco – a zoot-suited, well-dressed, street-connected flamboyant playboy of Hispanic/Latino heritage – originated in El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, had moved north, following the line of migration of Mexican railroad workers (" traqueros") into Los Angeles, where it developed further.
A pachuca is the female counterpart, often idealized as a beautiful Chicana woman in extravagant evening dress or a female version of the zoot suit, out with a pachuco boyfriend for a night on the town. Pachucas broke taboos of their time by wearing men's-style pants sometimes and appearing in public often with their pachuco boyfriends; at the time, a "good woman" was considered to have her place in the home. They defied male/female stereotypes and roles in Mexican-American culture in much the same way flappers had in European-American culture in the 1920s.
"Pachuco" is a song by La Maldita Vecindad released in 1991. The song was covered by Kumbia Kings, for their album Kumbia Kings Live released on March 2006.
Usage examples of "pachuco".
From the greased curls of his pompadour, through the slick sharkskin drape, to the overly pointed shoes, he was nothing less than the executive version of the pachuco greez.
He remembered, as if in an old legend, a sunburned California youth in a garish pachuco jacket, painting vans in a body shop.
Mempha Buzznoose himself arrived, flanked by four burly minders, hard-eyed men wearing pachuco hair nets and lots of gold jewelry.
The pachuco fondled the religious medals around his neck, looking bewildered.
Tucson: a surly unemployed mechanic who liked his beer, a knife-packing young pachuco, the fading former mistress of a former Nazi butcher-boy.
They turned, raised their hands: a pachuco punk, a pretty girl maybe six months pregnant.
Skirmishing broke out inland: navy personnel from the Chavez Ravine naval base versus pachucos in Alpine and Palo Verde.
An equal number of pachucos were supposed to be forming by the Brew 102 Brewery in Boyle Heights, supplied with similar weaponry.
Finally I looked down Wabash toward 1st Street, saw small houses, trees and no pachucos, cops or blood-hungry GIs.
Mempha Buzznoose himself arrived, flanked by four burly minders, hard-eyed men wearing pachuco hair nets and lots of gold jewelry.
An hour ago he’d had his secretary place query calls to his local Fed contact, City/County DMV/R&I and the criminal records bureaus of California, Nevada, Arizona and Oregon States, requesting arrest report information on Claire De Haven, Morton Ziffkin, Chaz Minear, Reynolds Loftis and three unholy-sounding pachucos: Mondo Lopez, Sammy Benavides and Juan Duarte, asterisks after their names denoting them “known youth gang members.
An hour ago he'd had his secretary place query calls to his local Fed contact, City/County DMV/R&I and the criminal records bureaus of California, Nevada, Arizona and Oregon States, requesting arrest report information on Claire De Haven, Morton Ziffkin, Chaz Minear, Reynolds Loftis and three unholy-sounding pachucos: Mondo Lopez, Sammy Benavides and Juan Duarte, asterisks after their names denoting them ``known youth gang members.
One night a year ago, Cinco de Mayo, there was a mariachi Mexican Spanish Pachuco conga lineup through the halls and down through the tenement, gassed on wine and enchiladas.
Buzz checked out the action while the pachucos pretended not to notice him.
Skirmishing broke out inland: navy personnel from the Chavez Ravine naval base versus pachucos in Alpine and Palo Verde.