picapleitos
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