Caló

[ kuh-loh; Spanish kah-law ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a variety of Spanish influenced by Mexican underworld argot with a large admixture of English words, spoken especially by Mexican Americans in cities of the southwestern United States.
a language spoken by the Spanish and Portuguese Roma.

Origin of Caló¹

First recorded in 1840–45 Caló fordef 2, and in 1945–50 Caló fordef 1; from Spanish, from Romani

Calo hopes that our visceral response to drones will prompt a national conversation.

Calo-John was slain in his tent by night, and the deed was piously ascribed to the lance of St. Demetrius.

That is Jaraicejo,” said Antonio; “a bad place it is and a bad place it has ever been for the Calo people.

Calo he spoke in such a manner as to astonish the Spanish gipsies.

For there be two manner of angels, a good and an evil, as the Greeks say, Cacho and Calo.

There were two ill-looking fellows in the kitchen, smoking cigars; I said something to Antonio in the Calo language.

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