Definition of cholo in English:
cholo
nounPlural cholosˈtʃəʊləʊˈCHōlō
derogatory 1(in some parts of Latin America) a man of indigenous or partly indigenous ancestry.
Example sentencesExamples
- For example, students were asked to note the differences between the bandido character from the 1948 film ‘The Treasure of the Sierra Madre’ and the cholo from the 1997 film ‘187’.
- Members of a second broad, intermediate category are labeled mestizos, cholos (a disparaging term), or nonindigenous.
- La Fabricia's conduct in public - that is, her refusal to interact with other cholos aside from El Saico - makes it apparent that something is going on between the two.
- The cholo challenged his oppression with gun in hand.
- Some interioranos grade imperceptibly into an acculturated native American population known pejoratively as cholos, who refer to themselves as naturales.
- 1.1US informal A young man belonging to a Mexican-American urban subculture associated with street gangs.
Example sentencesExamples
- In urban Latino neighborhoods, adolescents may conflict with their parents if they assume cholo identities.
- In 1996, a breathtaking Los Angeles Times exposé on the 18th Street Gang, which included descriptions of innocent bystanders being murdered by laughing cholos (gang members), revealed the rate of illegal-alien membership in the gang.
- The cholos baptized their clubs in Spanish, just because the banda was in vogue.
- The term cholo refers specifically to a member of a social group that is a contemporary extension of the pachuco.
- Now he runs his own talent management and production company, Suspect Entertainment, hiring out himself and other reformed Hispanic - or cholo - gangsters to play the kind of roles they once had for real.
Origin
Mid 19th century: American Spanish.