coyote
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9.1
- noun
- /kaɪˈoʊti/
- NSFW
- Many immigrants rely on a coyote to help them cross into the United States illegally.
- smugglers known as coyotes
- known as coyotes
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Watch on YouTubeSo let's say you want to come to the US and I'm a coyote, I'm a smuggler.
- So let's say you want to come to the US and I'm a coyote, I'm a smuggler.
- You cross the border, you just pay, you know, coyote to, to bring you across the border.
- Snake head and and we call them coyotes, coyotes, but in Mandarin, they call them snake heads.
- Know that dudes not a coyote that's going to try to smuggle you into Portland.
Examples
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Why not just have one of the coyotes do it?
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After paying a coyote thousands of dollars, they finally made it across the border.
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You cross the border, you just pay, you know, coyote to, to bring you across the border.
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Others are left on their own, with a cell phone to call the coyote when they arrive.
Blog text (12) -
"I can show you across the Rio Bravo," the coyote said.
Fiction book (1996) -
It's nothing anyone wants to do, buy forged papers, or even use a coyote.
Academic text (2010) -
Mr. Galindo, I need to warn you that even though it would be quicker and cheaper to have a coyote bring you back here, there would be legal consequences.
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To evade detection by drones and virtual fences, coyotes are leading smaller parties through increasingly isolated and dangerous terrain.
Academic text (2011) -
Individuals with this immigration status are often involved as small-time smugglers or coyotes (Martinez, 2001; Urrea, 2004).
Academic text (2007) -
He warned his friend not to trust a coyote on the dangerous journey to America.
Compounds
- US
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9.5
An evergreen bush with small clustered flowers that spreads in the southwestern United States
- US
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9.2
A spreading evergreen shrub with small flowers that grows on dry hills in the southwestern United States
Surface Forms
Etymology
Coyote is also used for a person who smuggles people across a border because people compared these guides to the animal coyote, seen as clever and secretive and often moving at night, so the human guide took the animal's name.