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Grass, lawn, pasture, the green stuff animals eat and kids roll around in. Across Mexico and Central America zacate is the everyday word for any kind of grass or fodder.
“The horses are grazing on the grass in the field.”
“Go cut the lawn, it's way too overgrown.”
/Sounds like "sah" (as in "salsa") + "KAH" (as in "car") + "teh" (as in "ten")/
Chicano Spanglish for the lawn or yard grass that needs mowing, taken from the Mexican Spanish word and applied to American suburban lawns. Mowing the zacate on weekends is a classic barrio ritual.
“Mow the zacate in the yard before the landlord complains.”
“I pay the neighbor's kid twenty bucks to cut the zacate.”
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/Sounds like "sah" (as in "salsa") + "KAH" (as in "car") + "teh" (as in "ten")/
Grass, lawn, pasture, the green stuff animals eat and kids roll around in. Across Mexico and Central America zacate is the everyday word for any kind of grass or fodder.
“The horses are grazing on the grass in the field.”
“Go cut the lawn, it's way too overgrown.”
/Sounds like "sah" (as in "salsa") + "KAH" (as in "car") + "teh" (as in "ten")/
Chicano Spanglish for the lawn or yard grass that needs mowing, taken from the Mexican Spanish word and applied to American suburban lawns. Mowing the zacate on weekends is a classic barrio ritual.
“Mow the zacate in the yard before the landlord complains.”
“I pay the neighbor's kid twenty bucks to cut the zacate.”
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