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• pachuca
  pachuca

  noun

  a teenage girl who associates closely with pachucos.
• Pachuca
  Pachuca

  noun

  a city in and the capital of Hidalgo, in central Mexico: silver mines.

pachuca

¹ American  

[puh-choo-kuh, pah-choo-kah] / pəˈtʃu kə, pɑˈtʃu kɑ /

noun

pachucas plural

1. a teenage girl who associates closely with pachucos.

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Pachuca ² American  

[pah-choo-kah] / pɑˈtʃu kɑ /

noun

1. a city in and the capital of Hidalgo, in central Mexico: silver mines.

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Pachuca British  

/ paˈtʃuka /

noun

1. a city in central Mexico, capital of Hidalgo state, in the Sierra Madre Oriental: silver mines; university (1961). Pop: 333 000 (2005 est)

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• pachucas
  plural

Etymology

Origin of pachuca

From Spanish (Mexico, southwestern U.S.), feminine of pachuco pachuco

Example Sentences

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pachuca Pachuca pachucas

Ramirez interviewed a number of women who donned pachuca styles in the ’40s for her book.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2023

It also has players who compete for clubs accustomed to playing at Mexican altitudes, such as Pedro Vite of Pumas and Enner Valencia of Pachuca.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

To acclimate his players to the altitude, he held training camp in Pachuca, at an elevation of 7,979 feet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

Pachuca welcomed their first Mexican player to the squad in 1908, with David Islas invited to join the side by the son of a Cornish miner from St Blazey named Alf Crowle.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026

It removed Mexico's Club Leon from last summer's Club World Cup due to their association with Pachuca.

From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2026

Take ’em all around as they go, I guess Pachuca stacks up pretty well.

From Across the Mesa by Pitz, Henry Clarence

In this edited oral history, she talks about pachucas, monument design and the obscure all-Chicana exhibition from the 1970s that is just beginning to draw interest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2021