"vato" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Spanish vato, ultimately from chivato. Term is mostly used by people from northwest Mexico (Sinaloa, Sonora, Chihuahua, Baja California).",
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          "ref": "1976, Christopher Press (publisher), Caracol, Volumes 3-4:",
          "text": "Say sergeant, my primo from Osten is over there. A real crazy vato, man.",
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          "ref": "1998 February 22, Guy Trebay, “Uprising the Indie”, in The New York Times Magazine:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1999, Mick Farren, Jim Morrison's Adventures in the Afterlife, A Novel:",
          "text": "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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        "A Hispanic youth; a guy; a dude."
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