coyote

Definitions


[kʌɪˈəʊti], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a wild dog that resembles the wolf, native to North America

- a person who smuggles people from Latin America across the US border, typically for a very high fee
(e.g: at the bus station, there were coyotes offering to drive us to Los Angeles)


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Origin:
mid 18th century: from Mexican Spanish, from Nahuatl coyotl




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