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The word comes from an indigenous Mexican/Native word coming from the Nahuatl (Aztec) word for “native.”

Here is a definition according to the scholastic Handbook of Texas:

"According to one explanation, the pre-Columbian tribes (Aztecs) in Mexico called themselves Meshicas, and the Spaniards, employing the letter x (which at that time represented a “sh” and “ch” sound), spelled it Mexicas. The Indians later referred to themselves as Meshicanos and even as Shicanos, thus giving birth to the term Chicano."

Therefore, the term stuck to all Americans of Mexican decent. Sometimes, the word “Chicano” can be applied to a Mexican national who was brought to the United States at a very early age and adapted the “Chicano” lifestyle.
Paisa: Oye guey, dime si el Ramon es paisa?

Homie: No. El Ramon es Chicano porque nacio aqui en los Estados Unidos pero es Mejicano por sangre. Le dicen el Monchi. Trucha guey! No le digas pocho.
Chicano by El Chunti January 15, 2011

chicanowash 

Using the gas station windshield cleaner to wash your entire car.
These cheap asses in front of me just pulled a chicanowash,
chicanowash by capn freddy June 22, 2012

Chicano Lodge 

Derived from Econo Lodge, an affordable motel chain for those who need to pinch their pennies while vacationing.

A small dwelling (apartment, loft, studio, etc) which houses no fewer than two families at a time.
Guy 1. "Hey, can we stay at your moms house when we visit Los Angeles?"

Guy 2. "No way man, that Chicano Lodge has no vacancy! We'd better stay at the Holiday Inn instead."
Chicano Lodge by Japanessence June 25, 2012
means Indigenous and Indian people from native or mexican americans
totally Indians decent or Indian people as natural races.
Chicanos
Chicano by MissCubans April 11, 2010
noun 1. A person who identifies himself/herself, regardless of a nationality, with the political, socioeconomic and cultural strife of native people and their descendants of the Americas.
2. A political, socioeconomic and cultural paradigm acquired from knowledge and interpretation of literature, music, politics, etc. of descendants of the Americas.
Being born in East L.A. doesn't make you Chicano, education and activism help in becoming one.
chicano by Ivan Lopez February 1, 2005
A person with the desendence of mexican but not born in mexico but in the U.S.A chicano is not people from latin america but only people with mexican desendence in born in the USA.
That vato over there says he is chicano but his parents were born in El Salvador. That means he is not chicano because his parents must be form Mexico and he must have been born in the United States to be a chicano.
chicano by raza March 8, 2005
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This designation comes from Reddit, where so many stories of bad wedding behavior indicated a need to communicate expectations for the wedding behavior of attendees.
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Blexas has been cited as possible in the upcoming decades, but only if Democrats continue to win the Hispanic vote in bigger margins.
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Democrat 2: Well uh, Blexas!
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briefcake 

"Did you check out the briefcake in courtroom C?"
briefcake by Ben Frey April 6, 2006
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