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spic

(spik)

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noun

Slang a person from a Spanish-speaking country of Latin America or from a Spanish-speaking community in the U.S.: an offensive term of contempt and derision

Origin: < (Hi)sp(an)ic

See spic in American Heritage Dictionary 4

also spick

noun
Offensive Slang

Used as a disparaging term for a Hispanic person.

Origin:

Origin: Alteration of obsolete spig, a Mexican

Origin: , short for spiggoty

Origin: , perhaps from an accented pronunciation of (No) speak the (English)

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