| 单词 | narco-buck |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnarco-buck a. Forming nouns denoting money generated by the trade in illegal drugs, as narco-buck, narco-dollar, narco-billion, etc., and a person who possesses (a lot of) such money, as narco-billionaire, narco-millionaire, etc. ΚΠ 1981 Newsweek 11 May 27/2 Buy-and-bust techniques that simply aren't fazing modern narcomillionaires. 1981 Washington Post (Nexis) 6 Aug. a3 Of course, Florida's booming economy can't all be laid to drug lords seeking to launder ‘narcobucks’. Florida has always been an attractive haven for Latin American wealth. 1983 Jrnl. Interamerican Stud. & World Affairs 25 340 The principal contributor to la otra economía is narcodollars. 1992 Concord Monitor (Concord, New Hampsh.) 7 July a2/2 Two of the three Colombian entries on the Forbes list are ‘narco-billionaires’, running their empires from prison. 1994 Time Internat. 25 July 30/1 The national police chief..had also been on the receiving end of narco-funds. 1997 Sun (Baltimore) (Nexis) 7 Mar. 14 a The narco-billions rolled in. < as lemmas |
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