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cho⋅lo
[choh-loh] 
–noun, plural -los. Chiefly Southwestern U.S.
| 1. | (esp. 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; < Mex Sp: mestizo, peasant, allegedly shortening of Cholollán (< Nahuatl Cholōllān, modern Cholula), a city-state in pre-conquest Mexico
1850–55; < Mex Sp: mestizo, peasant, allegedly shortening of Cholollán (< Nahuatl Cholōllān, modern Cholula), a city-state in pre-conquest Mexico
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