cholo
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish cholo, of uncertain origin.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃoʊloʊ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: (General American) -oʊloʊ
Noun
[edit]cholo (plural cholos)
- (derogatory) A Mexican or Hispanic gang member, or somebody perceived to embody similar characteristics.
- Coordinate term: chola
- 1999, Dorothy Leonard-Barton, Walter C. Swap, When Sparks Fly: Igniting Creativity in Groups, page 87:
- When Converse's cool-hunter DeeDee Gordon was in Los Angeles, she saw white teenage girls dressing like cholos, or Mexican gangsters, wearing tight white tank tops known as "wife beaters," a bra strap hanging out, long shorts, tube socks, and shower sandals.
Further reading
[edit]- “cholo”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Anagrams
[edit]Chamicuro
[edit]Noun
[edit]cholo
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unknown etymology. Hypotheses include:
- From Classical Nahuatl xolotl ("dog").
- From Classical Nahuatl xolo ("servant").
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cholo m (plural cholos, feminine chola, feminine plural cholas)
- (South America, derogatory) mestizo, person of mixed European and various degrees of Amerindian descent, especially if the person is poor
- (Mexico, historical) a poor Mexican, often living in California during 19th century
- (Mexico, US, informal) a person belonging to a street gang
- Synonyms: pandillero, marero, gángster
Descendants
[edit]- → English: cholo
Adjective
[edit]cholo (feminine chola, masculine plural cholos, feminine plural cholas) (colloquial, El Salvador)
- ripped, with defined muscles
- skillful (especially in a sport, but also figuratively in a dancing style, chess or a science)
- Synonyms: diestro, habilidoso
- Sí, él es bien cholo en taekwondo. Ha estado yendo cuatro días a la semana por años.
- Yes, he's pretty good in taekwondo. He's been going four days a week for years.
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “cholo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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