huaquero

From Spanish huaquero.

huaquero (plural huaqueros)

1. A graverobber in parts of Latin America.
   • 1980, Luis Ramos-García, Cuentos de Austin, page 144:

     The huaqueros watched the plane circle and return to the north. Trucks picked up the soldiers on the highway. The sand remained scarred by their prints.

From huaca +‎ -ero.

• IPA^(key): /w̝aˈkeɾo/ [w̝aˈke.ɾo], /ɡwaˈkeɾo/ [ɡwaˈke.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -eɾo
• Syllabification: hua‧que‧ro

huaquero m (plural huaqueros, feminine huaquera, feminine plural huaqueras)

1. (Latin America) graverobber (especially of Pre-Columbian graves)

• “huaquero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025