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spic (spik),USA pronunciation n. Slang (disparaging and offensive).
  1. Language Varieties, Slang Termsa Spanish-American person.
Also, spik, spick. 
  • 1910–15; earlier also spig, short for spiggoty; claimed, perh. correctly, to derive from an accented pronunciation, pronounced of (No) speak the (English)

'spic' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
despicable - spicate - spick - spick-and-span - spicula - spicule - spicy - spik

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