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noun, plural -los. Chiefly Southwestern U.S.
1.
(especially among Mexican-Americans) a teenage boy who is a member of a street gang.
2.
Disparaging. a Mexican or Mexican-American.
3.
a mestizo of Spanish America.
Origin:
1850–55; < Mexican Spanish: mestizo, peasant, allegedly shortening of Cholollán (< Nahuatl Cholōllān, modern Cholula), a city-state in pre-conquest Mexico
1850–55; < Mexican Spanish: mestizo, peasant, allegedly shortening of Cholollán (< Nahuatl Cholōllān, modern Cholula), a city-state in pre-conquest Mexico
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Cholo
is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
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| Main Entry: | cholo |
| Part of Speech: | n |
| Definition: | mestizo or lower-class Mexican or Latin American |
| Usage: | derogatory; feminine is chola |
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
Cholo
"Indian or mixed-race person of Latin America," 1851, from Amer.Sp. (1609), said to be from Nahuatl (Aztec)
xolotl "dog, mutt." Proposed derivation from Mexican city of Cholula seems too late, if this is the same word. In U.S., used of lower-class Mexican immigrants, but by 1970s the word began to be
EXPANDembraced in Latino gang slang in a positive sense.
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