coyote
/kaɪˈoʊti/
noun
- A wild animal similar to a small wolf, found in North and Central America.
- At night, we could hear the coyote howling in the distance.
- Farmers sometimes lose chickens to a hungry coyote.
- A coyote ran across the road and disappeared into the desert.
- A person who smuggles people across a border, especially from Mexico into the United States.
- Many families risk everything by hiring a coyote to reach the United States.
- The migrants paid a coyote to guide them across the desert.
- Border patrol arrested a coyote who was transporting people in a truck.
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