cholo
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- noun
- /ˈtʃoʊloʊ/
- Slur
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cholo
- Cesar Chavez calls the new zoot suit and cholo styles "a protest... being something different... if you look at the cholo today, there are a lot of similarities with the situation of the 1940s zoot suiters."
Do like, you know, like cholos from LA.
- Do like, you know, like cholos from LA.
Examples
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You're the one that got dressed up like a cholo on Easter to come to this party.
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You should have seen these two tough cholos.
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Well, now, Cholo, now you understand it's a business.
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And you, little Cholo, change your clothes.
Fiction book (1997) -
You gonna try to stop me, cholo?
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Now they would call him a cholo.
Fiction book (1990) -
Hey, you made me look like a cholo, ese.
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An East L.A. low rider grumbled: "They ought to call it Cholo Magazine..."
Academic text (1990) -
Man, I can't believe you trusted that cholo.
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The door to a tinted Lexus opens, and a group of cholos in blue bandanas jump out.
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cholo probably comes from Spanish and an old Nahuatl word xolo, which was the name of a hairless dog and then came to mean a 'mixed' or low-status person. That's why in the United States the word came to name young Latino men linked to a street style and gangs.