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1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. C4^v With the best tricks of any drugsters wife in England.

1693 T. P. Blount Nat. Hist. 215 I have often enquired amongst our London Drugsters for Egyptian Nitre.

1721 W. Gibson Farriers Dispensatory i. i. 4 It is a small knotty Root, and may be had at any Drugsters or Apothocaries.

1756 W. Toldervy Hist. Two Orphans I. xii. 106 I think you buys the best pennyworths at the drugsters.

1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well I. ii. 41 Down cam masons and murgeon-makers..and Papists and pie-bakers, and doctors and drugsters.

1891 Overland Monthly Apr. 390/2 ‘A crazy Frenchman?’ repeated the mild-faced druggist. ‘A fire-eating, whisky-drinking Frenchman!’ cried the butcher, whose blue eyes twinkled as he saw consternation on the face of the drugster.

1907 F. W. Chandler Lit. Roguery I. v. 216 Included in his further narrative are the rogue autobiographies of a drugster, a scrivener, and a bookseller.

2004 M. J. Kietzman Self-fashioning of Early Mod. Englishwoman i. 55 An anonymous letter supposedly written by one Mr. John Clay, a drugster at the Bear and Mortar in Lombard Street.

1970 Sci. Jrnl. Feb. 7/2 Injection of amphetamines has grown into an important new procedure amongst drugsters.

1975 Times 17 July 10/1 Life and hard times down among the rock groups, drugsters, dropouts and trendies off the Portobello Road.

1997 Economist 22 Feb. 66/2 Mexico's top anti-drugs fighter was..accused of being on the payroll of Amado Carrillo Fuentes, reputed head of the Juarez mob..and thus the country's top drugster.

2004 P. Reizin Fiends Reunited iv. 114 I thought back to my circle in the last year of college... The assorted drugsters and wasters who I used to hang around with.