cholo


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cho·lo

C5333550 (chō′lō)n. pl. cho·los 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.]

cholo

(ˈtʃəʊləʊ) n, pl -los1. (Peoples) a person who is descended from both European and Native American parents2. (Peoples) US a disparaging term for a lower-class person of Mexican descent3. (Peoples) US a tough or thug-like person of Mexican descent

cho•lo

(ˈtʃoʊ loʊ)

n., pl. -los. (esp. among Mexican-Americans) a teenage boy in a street gang. [1970–75, Amer.; < Mex Sp: peasant]