释义 |
spic noun- a Spanish-speaking person US, 1913
Derogatory and offensive. - What about Puerto Ricans? What about spics, Dadier? — Evan Hunter, The Blackboard Jungle, p. 208, 1954
- BERNARDO: With an “American.” Who is really a Polack. ANITA: Says the Spic. — West Side Story, 1957
- A guy on his way back from an OD, a naked kid in a sink, and some dumb spic broad hustling a guy who’s probably too stupid to know she’s on junk. Some world. — James Mills, The Panic in Needle Park, p. 40, 1966
- Lemme tell you about them rumbles. The wops said no spics could go east of Park Avenue. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 8, 1975
- Gus is in the hospital. Some P.R.’s got ’em. Fucking spics! — Saturday Night Fever, 1977
- Julio. Great. There are 20,000 spics named “Julio.” — The Bad Lieutenant, 1992
- a Spaniard UK
This usage reflects the fact that Spain is the closest Spanish-speaking community to the UK. - The Spanish mobsters led by El Torro are standing listening to Mars Bar [...] HARMLESS: Spics gone? MARS BAR: Yeah ... — Chris Baker & Andrew Day, Lock, Stock ... & a Fist Full of Jack and Jills, p. 189, 2000
- “Can’t trust the spicks,” he spat with sudden venom. — Jake Arnott, He Kills Coppers, p. 44, 2001
- the Spanish language US
- [T]hese guys would crouch around their pile of shredded joy and roll muggles on a twenty-four-hour shift, jabbering away in spic and smoking up all the profits. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 165, 1946
- a West Indian US
- — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Talk Dictionary, p. 17, 1945
- a railway track worker US
Many track workers in the American southwest were Mexican; the racial epithet was applied to Mexican and non-Mexican alike. - — Ramon Adams, The Language of the Railroader, p. 144, 1977
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