buscapleitos

Spanish

Etymology

Verb-object compound, composed of busca (“to look for”) +‎ pleitos (“fights”).

Noun

buscapleitos m or f by sense (plural buscapleitos)

1. (Latin America, colloquial) troublemaker, shit-stirrer
2. (colloquial, derogatory) shark lawyer

   Synonym: picapleitos

Further reading

• “buscapleitos”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28