\¦gächə¦pēn\noun
-s
chiefly Southwest sometimes disparaging
:a Spanish settler in America who immigrated from Spain (http://i.word.com/idictionary/gachupin)
"'Besides, Don Pancho...was a friend of the poor man. He even had a fellow shot when he was governor—a gachupín landlord who'd had a peon thrashed almost to death. You don't have any idea,' she went on, 'how the landlords and especially their gachupín managers abuse people around here.'"
- John Womack, Zapata and the Mexican Revolution
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