cho·lo 
(chōlō)
(chōlō)n. pl. cho·los
Often Offensive
Often Offensive
1. A young, usually working-class Mexican-American man, especially one belonging to a subculture that often includes membership in a neighborhood gang.
2. In parts of Latin America, a person of indigenous American or mestizo heritage.
[American Spanish : originally a derogatory word for a person of African and indigenous American ancestry, perhaps from a word in a pre-Columbian Antillean language meaning dog.]