huaquero
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huaquero (plural huaqueros)
- A graverobber in parts of Latin America.
- 1980, Luis Ramos-García, Cuentos de Austin, page 144:
- The huaqueros watched the plane circle and return to the north. Trucks picked up the soldiers on the highway. The sand remained scarred by their prints.
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Noun edit
huaquero m (plural huaqueros, feminine huaquera, feminine plural huaqueras)
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Further reading edit
- “huaquero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014