buscapleitos
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb-object compound, composed of busca (“to look for”) + pleitos (“fights”).
Noun
[edit]buscapleitos m or f by sense (plural buscapleitos)
- (Latin America, colloquial) troublemaker, shit-stirrer
- (colloquial, derogatory) shark lawyer
- Synonym: picapleitos
Further reading
[edit]- “buscapleitos”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014