A member of a revolutionary group in Chiapas in southern Mexico, which fights against neo-liberalism and for self-determination by the local indigenous peoples. It has an armed wing, the EZLN, and a political wing, the FZLN.
The Zapatistas have become iconic in the anti-capitalist movement, especially through their enigmatic figurehead, Subcomandante Marcos, who wears a ski-mask and writes almost poetic works of theory/strategy.
1. n. - Species of apelike mammal, quite possibly the missing link between Australopithecus and Homo Erectus, common to suburban Delaware and characterized by heavy body odor, unnatural slow wit and a diet primarily comprising Skittles and Easy Cheese. Prone to hyperactivity at the sight of nude nubile human females.
2. slang - Any person who is allowed to exist in polite society when he should rightly be remanded to an orphanage for the mentally handicapped.
Various state and federal laws kept the docile yet dysfunctional Zappacosta from being institutionalized; rather, he passes his idle days chewing his own cud on a quiet Delaware lawn.