Vietnamese word used to describe former Vietcong who were helping U.S. forces.
Don't shoot her -- she's a chu-hoi.
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n. NE England slang term for idiotic dickhead
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Term used to describe attempts, usually by kids, to recreate in their own back yards the kind of wrestling seen on television. Often done innocent of the fact that tv wrestling is well-planned and executed choroegraphed theatrical stunts, it can and frequently does lead to broken bones and other serious injury.
The poor kid got a concussion when his friend hit him in the head with a chair while they were backyard wrestling.
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In common usage, generally any young hispanic/Mexican-American males perceived (through similarity of garb, haircuts, etc.) to be members of a street gang. Actual gang in Southern California dates back to and rivals the Hell's Angels
"I think those Mexican guys standing on the corner are probably pachucos."
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n. vagabond, from Depression times when the droughts that led to the dust bowl caused people to abandon their worthless farms in Oklahoma and Texas and take to the road to seek jobs elsewhere.
"They packed up as much as they could salvage and became Oakies on their way to California."
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Kinching Morts & Coes: refers to child pickpockets, beggars or other criminal/mendicant professions. Ca. 1800.
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cockney rhyming slang meaning 'pub'.
"let's go down the rub-a-dub for a pint of cold pig's ear."
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