Guiri
A term used in Spain to refer to foreign tourists. Specially on the Mediterranean coast 'guiri' referred to fair-skinned Northern Europeans on package holidays from the mid-twentieth century. The stereotype of a guiri is a sunburned fair-haired English-speaking white person wearing shorts, socks, sandals, sunglasses and with a camera in full view.
Either 'guiri' or 'tourist' can be used to describe non-native people of non-Spanish ethnicity in order to demarcate them as foreigners.
Guiri is officialy included as a spanish standard form for foreign tourist as the third possibility of meaning for this noun on the Official Dictionary of the Spanish Academy (on the 22th edition) from the Real Academia Española de la Lengua. Other meanings are: 1st) a Plant 2nd) a historic name for Carlists and even a 4th entry for Police. The word 'guiri' was included on this dictionary for the first time in 1925.
Considerd by the Real Academia Española de la Lengua as a standard word we can not say it is slang.
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