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-suitedvato armed with a sacred Thompson gun and a thugee in dirty robes with a nineteenth century Martini carbine.
According to the Mexican-American poetLuis Alberto Urrea, the word originated inPachuco slang of the 1940s, and is derived from "the once-common friendly insultchivato or goat."[1]
This term may be used with intimate friends or as a derogatory reference. In some contexts, the term has gang connotations. The feminine form,vata, is also used by Chicano prostitutes in the United States to refer to a woman who owes them money.
