huaquero
English
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[edit]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.
Spanish
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[edit]huaquero m (plural huaqueros, feminine huaquera, feminine plural huaqueras)
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “huaquero”, 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
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