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say it: spik
spic is a noun and adjective meaning "(ethnic slur) offensive term for persons of Latin American descent". It is pronounced /ˈspɪk/ — spik. It carries 2 recorded senses.
(ethnic slur) offensive term for persons of Latin American descent
ethnic slur · disparagement · slang
completely neat and clean
“the apartment was immaculate”
“in her immaculate white uniform”
“a spick-and-span kitchen”
“their spic red-visored caps”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for spic come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.