I appreciated your explanation of the word pachuco to Still Terrified in East LA, noting that it is derived from our reference to our beloved city of El Paso. From Wordnik.com. [Houston Press | Complete Issue] Reference
(Let's go to El Paso), "and correctly so on your part, the word pachuco was born. From Wordnik.com. [Houston Press | Complete Issue] Reference
Fritzie pulled out a pachuco toad stabber and popped the blade. From Wordnik.com. [White Jazz]
A pachuco by the stage kept a refrain up: "Baby, are they real?". From Wordnik.com. [Hollywood Nocturne]
More pachuco than (insert your choice of expletive here). thfarrell. From Wordnik.com. [question about vulgar language] Reference
The Murga are dressed in the pachuco Zuit Suits of 1940s east Los Angeles. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons on Joy from Carnival] Reference
He definitely speaks better than any other pachuco/a on that city council. From Wordnik.com. [Cindy to Run for CD7] Reference
Too, I was all too quick to assume that a pachuco in a zoot suit was naturally guilty of any accusation. From Wordnik.com. [Masked] Reference
His blond hair hung in curls on his denim jacket, and a pachuco cross was tattooed between his eyebrows. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Get-Back Boogie] Reference
Clean Shirt made the sign of the cross, pachuco version, his right hand stroking his balls; Dirty Shirt crossed the standard way. From Wordnik.com. [The Big Nowhere]
A group of Mexicans with a bereaved-family look was standing by the loading ramp staring in; a pachuco type stared at him extra hard. From Wordnik.com. [The Big Nowhere]
The years in stir had not been kind to him: the hatchet-faced tough of the '39 newspaper pictures was now a well-used piece of work, bloated in the body, grizzled in the face, his pachuco haircut as outdated as his Salvation Army suit. From Wordnik.com. [White Jazz]
I'll be there with my favorite pitbulls - pachuco and stacy, each chained up using silvery chains. From Wordnik.com. [Corpus Christi Caller Times, Caller.com Stories] Reference
(one of the all-time pachuco broken-hearted tunes) and Mexico Americano. From Wordnik.com. [La Bloga] Reference
A pachuco minus some fingers. From Wordnik.com. [White Jazz]
A pachuco passion job, pure and simple. From Wordnik.com. [The Big Nowhere]
Ten seconds -- a classic pachuco shrug. From Wordnik.com. [White Jazz]
The drummer was a bantamweight pachuco. From Wordnik.com. [American Tabloid]
She wears crime-cult pachuco tattoos on her body. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
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