Meaning of vato | Babel Free

Definitions

A Hispanic youth; a guy; a dude.

Examples

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

“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.”

“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.”

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