Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (orig. US) pertaining to Latin American or Puerto Rican people or culture.

1935		N. Algren Somebody in Boots 110: See them boys by the spik pool-hall we druv by?
1936		K. Mackenzie Living Rough 242: I was with him down in El Paso. He and I had just about wrecked some spick joint.
1947		B. Schulberg Harder They Fall (1971) 35: I got this Molina and his spic manager [...] coming out to the country.
1954		J. Steinbeck Sweet Thursday (1955) 54: Can you talk that spick talk?
1961		C. Cooper Jr Weed (1998) 137: One window where some spic family lived. [Ibid.] 139: Not spicky stuff or sissy, either.
1964		H. Selby Jr Last Exit to Brooklyn 33: I’ll tell them some spick kids did it.
1967		(con. 1940s) M. Dibner Admiral (1968) 234: The best spick meal in town.
1976		N. Thornburg Cutter and Bone (2001) 74: A nigger fag and two spic girls with a pet monkey.
1981		J. Wambaugh Glitter Dome (1982) 121: I wonder how that spic prick Cesar Chavez would like that?
1990		(con. early 1950s) J. Ellroy L.A. Confidential 178: Cheap stuff, probably Mex-made: spic hairstyles on skinny junkie posers.
1999		(con. 1958) C. Logue Prince Charming 236: I hate that cock-sucking son of a spick bitch.
2001		G. Pelecanos Right As Rain 128: His shiny suit, big pads under the shoulders, and those pointed spick shoes he liked.
2006		F.X. Toole Pound for Pound 77: The police put the little spic whore away.
2017		D. Winslow The Force [ebook] ‘You spic cunt’.
2020		D. Whish-Wilson Shore Leave 95: The spic officer glared.

2. Spanish or Spanish-American.

1942		R.L. Bellem ‘Broken melody’ in Dan Turner – Hollywood Detective Dec. 🌐 Schumaker’s orchestra was tuning up—all in Spanish costumes. Hal said: ‘[...] Got to go put on my own Spick regalia’.
1982		J. Sullivan ‘The Long Legs of the Law’ Only Fools and Horses [TV script] We went on to this little spic drinking club.
1999		Guardian 11 Nov. 24: ‘I’m half Spic,’ he tells People Management magazine.
2001		N. Griffiths Sheepshagger 249: Come on yew South Americans [...] I’ll never say another word against yew Spic fuckers if yew beat-a fuckin Sais.