paisano

noun3

1. •
   A native, especially a native of California of mixed Spanish and American Indian ancestry.
2. •
   (US) An Italian(-American), particularly as a term of address between Italian-American men.
3. •
   (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. — 1903