pocho

[ paw-chaw; English poh-choh ]

noun

, Mexican Spanish: Usually Disparaging.

, plural po·chos [paw, -chaws, poh, -chohz].

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

Example Sentences

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.

From Los Angeles Times

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.”

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From Los Angeles Times

Another way is the language itself, a mezclando Spanglish one narrator describes as “our pocho mix-and-match Spanish we used on our side of the river,” a language pitch-perfect with sentences like: “Whatever, ladies, right, get over it, por favor. Why would the boogeyman want your feote kids?”

From New York Times