Green’s Dictionary of Slang

chico n.1

also chicko
[SE chick]

a child.

[UK]W. Hall Long and the Short and the Tall Act I: Nippo snappers, Sarge. Two Jap kids. Couple of chicos.
[UK]C. Wood ‘Prisoner and Escort’ in Cockade (1965) I iii: What does your chicko think of her daddy.