vato

Etymology
From, ultimately from. Term is mostly used by people from northwest Mexico (Sinaloa, Sonora, Chihuahua, Baja California).

Noun

 * 1)  Hispanic youth; guy; dude

Etymology 1
Borrowed from and. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) cotton wool

Etymology 2
Borrowed from,. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) watt

Etymology
From, from (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬).

Noun

 * 1) rock, stone, cobble

Etymology
According to the Chicano poet Luis Alberto Urrea, the word originated in Pachuco slang of the 1940s, and is derived from "the once-common friendly insult or goat."

Noun

 * 1)  Male Hispanic youth; guy; dude; boyfriend; significant other

Usage notes

 * This term may be used with intimate friends or as a derogatory reference. In some contexts, the term has gang connotations. The feminine form,, is also used by Chicano prostitutes to refer to a woman who owes them money.

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) stone