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名詞

vato (plural vatos)

1. (Chicano slang) A Hispanic youth; a guy; a dude.
   • 1976, Christopher Press (publisher), Caracol, Volumes 3-4:

     Say sergeant, my primo from Osten is over there. A real crazy vato, man.

   • 1998 February 22, Guy Trebay, “Uprising the Indie”, in The New York Times Magazine‎:

     Its 20-page portfolio of stills from the music-video director Mark Romanek functions as a virtual swipe book of contemporary style idioms: cowboys, aliens, vatos, Janet Jackson and Madonna.

   • 1999, Mick Farren, Jim Morrison's Adventures in the Afterlife, A Novel:

     Two of the pursuers broke cover, a zoot-suited vato armed with a sacred Thompson gun and a thugee in dirty robes with a nineteenth century Martini carbine.