spic
spic [spic spics] BrE [spɪk] NAmE [spɪk] noun (taboo, slang, especially NAmE) a very offensive word for a person from a country where Spanish is spoken, for example a Mexican or Puerto Rican Idiom: ↑spic and span Word Origin: early 20th cent.: abbreviation of US slang spiggoty, in the same sense, of uncertain origin: perhaps an alteration of speak the in ‘no speak the English’.
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