Dictionary Of Chicano Slang

Based primarily on data gathered in the San Diego/Tijuana and Calexico/Mexicali areas, this edition incorporates terms from Texas, New Mexico, and other areas of the Southwest in an easy-to-use format designed to appeal to the native English-speaker.

Reference guide to the Spanish language as used in Spanish communities in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Florida, California, and Texas. Includes 9,000 terms and phrases not found in standard Spanish dictionaries.

More than just a list of 'rude words'

Nonfiction. Reference. Latino/Latina Studies. "Polkinhorn and Velasco have busted the borders of linguistic analysis and Chicano talk assumptions. I hear the voices of my uncle Beto from El Paso in the 30s, the new multi-vocalities of the ‘¡Orale!’ generations of Latin America and the ever swashbuckling cross-cultural speakers and singers of the world. This is the unchained rap of the people! Tune into its poetic-love, community-renaissance and heart-rhythm dance. A twenty-first century ring-tone. ¡De aquellas! Right on!"—Juan Felipe Herrera.

Presents more than four thousand contemporary colloquial expressions from Spain, Latin America, and the Spanish-speaking community in the United States, with definitions, a sample sentence, and an equivalent in American slang.

Reference guide to the Spanish language as used in Spanish communities in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Florida, California, and Texas. Includes 9,000 terms and phrases not found in standard Spanish dictionaries.

This Spanish slang lexicon explains & translates many of the obscure expressions in common usage on Mexican streets today, most of which are not in standard English/Spanish dictionary. (Contains some adult language.)