picapleitos
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Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Verb-object compound, composed of pica (“to stab, to chop”) + pleitos (“lawsuits”).
Noun[edit]
picapleitos m or f by sense (plural picapleitos)
- (colloquial, derogatory) shark lawyer
- Synonym: buscapleitos
Further reading[edit]
- “picapleitos”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014