buscapleitos

Spanish

Etymology

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

Noun

buscapleitos m or f by sense (plural buscapleitos)

(Latin America, colloquial) troublemaker, shit-stirrer
(colloquial, derogatory) shark lawyer
Synonym: picapleitos

Further reading

“buscapleitos”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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