In order to communicate with the (Mexican) woman at the laundromat, I had to use my smartphone to look up the Spanish word for "bed bug", which is something like la chinche.
Etymologically, that *must* be connected with the word "chinch" that's used by urban African-Americans.
I wonder what the story is behind that word!!!
What two disparate communities, to have the same-ish word (but not the white community).
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