Word.ws English Dictionary

cholos

cholos is the plural of cholo.

Meaning of cholo

Noun

cholo (plural cholos)

  1. (derogatory) A Mexican or Hispanic gang member, or somebody perceived to embody similar characteristics.
    • When Converse's cool-hunter DeeDee Gordon was in Los Angeles, she saw white teenage girls dressing like cholos, or Mexican gangsters, wearing tight white tank tops known as "wife beaters," a bra strap hanging out, long shorts, tube socks, and shower sandals.1999, Dorothy Leonard-Barton, Walter C. Swap, When Sparks Fly: Igniting Creativity in Groups, page 87

Questions about cholos

What is cholos the plural of?
Cholos is the plural of cholo.

Words near cholos in the dictionary

  1. Cholmondeston
  2. cholo
  3. choloalite
  4. cholochrome
  5. Cholon
  6. cholos
  7. cholothorax
  8. choloylglycine
  9. choloyltaurine
  10. Cholsey
  11. choltries

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cholos (page history and authors); cholo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “cholos.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/cholos. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.