picapleitos

Spanish

Etymology

Verb-object compound, composed of pica (“to stab, to chop”) +‎ pleitos (“lawsuits”).

Noun

picapleitos m or f by sense (plural picapleitos)

1. (colloquial, derogatory) shark lawyer

   Synonym: buscapleitos

Further reading

• “picapleitos”, 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