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spic
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
derogatory for "Latino person," 1913, from cliche protestation, No spick English. Earlier spiggoty (1910 "speak-a the ..."); the term is said to have originated in Panama during the canal construction. But it also was applied from an early date to Italians, and some have suggested an alteration of spaghetti.
Wiktionary
n. (context US British derogatory ethnic slur English) A Spanish-speaking person, someone with a Central American or Latino accent.
WordNet
adj. completely neat and clean; "the apartment was immaculate"; "in her immaculate white uniform"; "a spick-and-span kitchen"; "their spic red-visored caps" [syn: immaculate, speckless, spick-and-span, spic-and-span, spick, spotless]
Wikipedia
Spic (also known as spick) is an ethnic slur used in the United States for a person of Spanish background.
Southern Petrochemical Industries Corporation Ltd, or SPIC, (, ) is an Indian company that makes petrochemicals. Its core competency is in fertiliser products. It has operations in power, oil and natural gas, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology applications in agriculture.
The company, headquartered in Chennai, was incorporated on 18 December 1969 and became a joint venture between the M. A. Chidambaram Group and TIDCO (a part of the Government of Tamil Nadu) in 1975. The government sold its stake in 1992. The company's biggest client has been the government of Tamil Nadu, which purchases agro-products for subsidised distribution through its Public Distribution System. The company has been in poor financial health since about 2002. Its 2006 sales amounted to 2,200 crore, with a net operating loss of 180 crore.
SPIC has four business lines:
- the fertiliser division,
- the pharmaceuticals division which manufactures Penicillin-G Potassium (fermentation-based), and active pharmaceutical ingredients,
- the engineering/construction services division offers specialised and turnkey project-based solutions mainly in fertilisers,
- the agri-business division, which offers products for agricultural development like hybrid seeds and bio-fertilisers.
The company has a strategic stake/or has promoted companies like Thoothukudi Alkali Chemicals, a soda ash manufacturer, Tamil Nadu Petro-products a company which produces liner alkali benzene, Manali Petrochemicals, Indo-Jordan Chemicals and a host of other companies.
As per regulatory filings, the promoters (including TN government's investment arm which has 8.2% stake) hold 39.2%, institutions hold 16.2%, public shareholding is 29% and custodians of GDRs hold the balance. First, SPIC knocked on the BIFR doors, and then entered the CDR Cell for restructuring loans. The problem for SPIC started in the late 1990s when the company had planned a foray into petrochemicals through SPIC Petrochemicals, which ran into a rough weather. It was contrived then to make purified terephthalic acid (PTA) and polyester filament yarn (PFY) facility at Manali in Chennai.
Spic is an ethnic slur for a person of Latino/Hispanic descent.
Spic, spik or Špik may also refer to:
- SPIC (Indian company), an Indian petrochemicals company
- State Power Investment Corporation, Chinese nuclear giant formed by the merger of SNPTC and China Power Investment Corporation.1
- Špik, a mountain in Slovenia
- Luka Špik (born 1979), a Slovenian rower and Olympic gold medalist
- SPIC MACAY, the Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music And Culture Amongst Youth
- Spic and Span, a major U.S. brand of all-purpose household cleanser
- Grind og spik, a typical dish of the Faroe Islands consisting of pilot whale meat and blubber
Usage examples of "spic".
I got to open the door to every spic that knocks anytime he wants to cut my balls?
He gave me a name and the place where the bangs out--a spic bar over on Agua Fria.
The guy is a fucking spic from the Bronx, a fucking Puerto Rican with a bankroll.
Cheap stuff, probably Mex-made: spic hairstyles on skinny junkie posers.
You want to find out about some spic in Proctor, you talk to Freddie Santiago, or you go over to San Juan Hill.
Eddie trying to tell them that some big glass boxes and a corkscrew-ramped concrete parking garage are going to bring the shoppers back in spite of all the spic kids roaming around with transistors glued to their ears and knives up their wrists.
This was when he was He had got off with the suspended on shooting the spic in the throat, had met all his obligations, and the was clean.
Half a dozen police cars were in the outside, and uniformed cops were the sidewalks, walkie-talkies in their stopping people and asking them He had never seen so many cops in except that time when he was still living in Harlem, and a spic was holed an apartment in Spanish Harlem, between Park and Madison.
I spoke with a doctor named Perez, a young talkative spic who used to assist her.
His coverage of police activities made the East Los Angeles sheriffs department so unhappy that they soon found themselves in a sort of running private argument with this man Salazar, this Spic who refused to be reasonable.
New Home for Ebb Tide, False Dawn in Aztlan and a Chain of Bull Maggots on the Neck of the Fat Spic from Riverbank.
I was placing the pubes and ribs in a solution of hot water and Spic and Span when Larabee entered, followed by Sheila Jansen.
Bud thought of him and Stens front page smeared: nailed by the spics and their lawyers.
Rabbit turns left on Fifth, past the post office and the Ramada Inn that used to be the Ben Franklin with its grand ballroom, which always makes him think of Mary Ann and her crinolines and the fragrance between her legs, and over to Eisenhower Avenue, above number 1204 where Janice hid out with Charlie that time, and takes an obtuse-angled turn right, heading up through the Hispanic section, which used to be German working-class, across Winter, Spring, and Summer streets with the blinding lights and occasional moving shadow, spics out looking for some kind of a deal, the nights still a little cool to bring out all the street trash, to Locust Boulevard and the front of Brewer High School, a Latin-inscribed Depression monument, ambitious for the common good like something Communists would put up, the whole country close to Communism in the Thirties, people not so selfish then, built the year Harry was born, 1933, and going to outlast him it looks like.
But from all the spics and rock apes he could see running about, Buster had his doubts.