1993 L. Rodríguez Always Running (1996) 149: He knew he had mostly indisciplined could-give-a-fuck dudes to shape up.at give a fuck, v.
1993 L. Rodríguez Always Running (1996) 81: ‘That’s the way I talk to my pain-in-booty, so-called sister’.at pain-in-the-ass, adj.
1993 L. Rodríguez Always Running (1996) 145: This guy is bad news [...] He’s been arrested [...] many times.at bad news, n.
1993 L. Rodríguez Always Running (1996) 6: I jumped over peeling fences, fleeing vatos locos, the police or my own shadow.at bato loco, n.
1993 L. Rodríguez Always Running (1996) 32: They also had nicknames [...] Rano called her ‘beanhead’.at bean-head (n.) under bean, n.1
1993 L. Rodríguez Always Running (1996) 54: Pills they called colies or blancas (colies was short for coloradas, which meant ‘reds’ or downers; blancas stood for ‘whites’, uppers).at blanca, n.
1993 L. Rodríguez Always Running (1996) 178: After the ‘blowouts’ they get more Chicano teachers.at blow-out, n.1
1993 L. Rodríguez Always Running (1996) 62: He had just bought a ‘bomb,’ a 1950s car cut low and sleek.at bomb, n.
1993 L. Rodríguez Always Running (1996) 186: I got into somone else’s car and we boogied back to the party.at boogie, v.
1993 L. Rodríguez Always Running (1996) 158: ‘It’s my neighborhood, man. I’m there nulljiving, just passing time’.at bull-jive, v.
1993 L. Rodríguez Always Running (1996) 149: We ran our butts off around a large track.at — one’s butt off (adv.) under butt, n.1
1993 L. Rodríguez Always Running (1996) 235: I stopped attending Cal State after my release from jail.at Cal, n.
1993 L. Rodríguez Always Running (1996) 165: Calo: Chicano street slang [...] linked to Gypsy patois of Spain and Mexico.at caló, n.
1993 L. Rodríguez Always Running (1996) 131: There was nothing like it, this rush, and here I was on the edges of [...] this fellowship of la carga, so integral to ‘la vida loca’.at carga, n.
1993 L. Rodríguez Always Running (1996) 159: You’re a vato loco. For you the world is one big chingaso [hard knock] after another.at chingazo, n.
1993 L. Rodríguez Always Running (1996) 44: The dudes began to sport cholo attire: the baggy starched pants and suspenders over white T-shirts [...] the bandanas and small brim hats.at cholo, adj.
1993 L. Rodríguez Always Running (1996) 5: This lifestyle originated with the Mexican Pachuco gangs of the 1930s and 1940s, and was later recreated with the Cholos.at cholo, n.
1993 L. Rodríguez Always Running (1996) 44: Cholas [...] had long, teased hair, often peroxided black or red. They had heavy makeup, skirts which hugged their behinds, and they were all the time fighting.at cholo, n.
1993 L. Rodríguez Always Running (1996) 254: Colillos — low lifes. Appropriated by Chicano barrio youth to describe [...] local gang structures.at cholillos (n.) under cholo, n.
1993 L. Rodríguez Always Running (1996) 208: The chota will come down hard, but we’re going to make sure nobody gets popped.at chota, n.
1993 L. Rodríguez Always Running (1996) 41: We didn’t call ourselves gangs. We called ourselves clubs or clicas.at clica, n.
1993 L. Rodríguez Always Running (1996) 54: Pills they called colies or blancas (colies was short for coloradas, which meant ‘reds’ or downers; blancas stood for ‘whites’, uppers).at colie, n.
1993 L. Rodríguez Always Running (1996) 46: The front door had ‘Los Lomas’ spray-painted on the outside, followed by the words ‘Con Safos’.at con safos, phr.
1993 L. Rodríguez Always Running (1996) 206: Juvenile hall issued pants we called ‘counties’.at counties, n.
1993 L. Rodríguez Always Running (1996) 208: Dedos meant fingers and is used to describbe snitches. they were also called ratos — rats.at dedos, n.