The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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In a June 19, 1970 columna, he antagonized the left by describing the pachucos of a previous generation as “anarchistic.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2025
It was in seemingly placid landscapes like this, wrought in violence and pregnant with contested meanings, that Valdez encountered his first pachucos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2023
But the musical by Luis Valdez was a distinctly Los Angeles production: it was commissioned by the Mark Taper Forum and portrayed a 1940s murder trial involving Mexican-American zoot-suit-wearing youths known as pachucos.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2017
That diversity is certainly on display and the show documents the influence of British youth culture on Latinos, juxtaposing photographs of British Teddy Boys with zoot-suited Mexican American youth, known as pachucos.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 13, 2016
To the pachucos, the baggy, finely tailored zoot suit was a symbol of pride, a way to assert their identity.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 13, 2016
