How do you pronounce chicanery? Do you soften the a, as in Chicano? No! This term, meaning “trickery” or “disturbance of the peace,” is etymologically unrelated to Chicano. It is, however, a linguistic relative of the name of...
Anthony in Salt Lake City remembers using frajo for a cigarette in high school in Pueblo, Colorado, where it worked as classroom code alongside Spanglish terms like fedia for money. The word turns up in studies of Mexican-American youth slang from...
East Los n.— «I’m a 42 year old vato from east los with four children and a love of Jesus Christ.» —“Re: Excuse Me !!!” by Lloyd Sanchez Usenet: soc.culture.mexican.american Jun 26, 1994. (source: Double-Tongued...