drug dealer
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4.8
- noun
- /drʌg ˈdiːlər/
- NSFW
:
traficante de drogas
- The police arrested a notorious drug dealer who had been operating in the city for years.
- illegal drug dealers
- arrest of drug dealers
- gangs and drug dealers
He, his dad was a drug dealer who got shot.
- He, his dad was a drug dealer who got shot.
- Did Emma Bailey, accused drug dealer, know Brian Coleburger?
- But yeah, so be a drug dealer, not a drug taker.
- We made friends with our neighborhood drug dealer as one does.
- All that's there is drug dealers in these neighborhoods that I'm frequent.
- But crucially, most drug dealers don't just specialized in one drug.
- And I'm driving a Ford Focus, I meet a former drug dealer and he's working for me.
- And you know, some of those drug dealers are so insidious.
- Just see if any drug dealer heard of perpetuates.
- So he sees him and Biggs, who's drug dealers was was drug dealers.
Examples
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We made friends with our neighborhood drug dealer as one does.
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Could I speak to the drug dealer of the house please?
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So now the charge to the drug dealer is murder.
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Just give me the names of those drug dealers.
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You know, they labeled it the biggest drug dealer in the county.
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But we get a lot of ex-cons and drug dealers coming out here to lay low.
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A group of men, mostly drug dealers, hang out at an all-night coffee shop.
Fiction book (1990) -
The kid gives him money, and the drug dealer stuffs a small baggie in the boy's shirt.
Fiction book (1999) -
After years in prison, he decided to turn his life around and leave his past as a drug dealer behind.
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In his small town, everybody knew that the new resident was a drug dealer selling illegal substances.
Synonyms
384
6.5
A person who buys and sells illegal goods like drugs and stolen items
21
8.4
A person who sells illegal drugs to other people
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6.2
A person who illegally buys and sells large amounts of drugs
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8.3
A person who sells or moves illegal drugs
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8.1
A person who secretly sells illegal drugs
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7.4
A person who sells illegal drugs, often on the street
1
9.9
A person who sells illegal drugs, especially heroin
A person who sells illegal drugs on the street
A person who illegally sells drugs to others
A person who sells illegal drugs and becomes well known for it
How Powerful
- NSFW
33
4.9
204
2.7
- NSFW
62
8.0
- NSFW
246
4.8
- NSFW
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person who sells illegal drugs' is directly and compositionally derived from 'drug' (substance) + 'dealer' (seller/trader); the phrase simply specifies the type of goods traded. This compound is regular and cross-linguistically transparent (equivalent constructions exist in many languages), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Drug dealer puts together drug and dealer, so imagine someone who 'deals' out small packets on a street corner like a card dealer handing out cards. That's why drug dealer means 'a person who sells illegal drugs'.