sacacuartos
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Verb-object compound, composed of saca (“to remove”) + cuartos (“fortunes (lots of money)”).
Noun edit
sacacuartos m (plural sacacuartos)
- (colloquial) waste of money
- Synonym: sacadineros
- (colloquial) swindler, rip-off merchant
Further reading edit
- “sacacuartos”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014