paisano

noun

1. (US)An Italian(-American), particularly as a term of address between Italian-American men.
2. A native, especially a native of California of mixed Spanish and American Indian ancestry.
3. (Southwestern, US)A roadrunner.

   “Within a very few minutes the cattleman was mounted and away. Paisano, well named after that ungainly but swift-running bird, struck into his long lope that ate up the ground like a strip of macaroni.”