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cholos

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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
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