buscapleitos
Spanish 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