pocho

[paw-chaw, poh-choh]

noun

Mexican Spanish: Usually Disparaging.

plural

pochos 

1. an American of Mexican parentage, especially one who has adopted U.S. customs and attitudes; an Americanized Mexican.

Example Sentences

Paired with mimosas, it was a fun pocho brunch, Pilsen-made.

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“I identify as pocho and there wasn’t a home for us. It was all either the mom-and-pop shops, or places that were way too modern,” Acosta said during a quiet lull one weekday.

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Worse, some pocho kept picking morose arena rock in English and Spanish — Pink Floyd and the Doors, Enanitos Verdes and Caifanes — from the digital jukebox that drowned out the baseball broadcast.

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In high school, he said, other Mexican Americans would call him “pocho,” a derogotary term, for doing things as innocuous as playing baseball, which he said other Latinos called a “white sport.”

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The name-calling — labeling someone pocho, gringo or “too American to be Mexican,” for example — can often be passed off as cariño, or joking with endearment.

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