Caló (Chicano)
Caló (also known as Pachuco) is an argot or slang of Mexican Spanish that originated during the first half of the 20th century in the Southwestern United States. It is the product of zoot-suit pachuco culture that developed in the 1930s and '40s in cities along the US/Mexico border.
This article is about the Chicano idiom. For the dialect spoken by Spanish Roma, see Caló (Spanish Romani).
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