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cocaine cowboy

noun

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  1. A cocaine smuggler or dealer whose activities are likely to lead them into violent…

    A cocaine smuggler or dealer whose activities are likely to lead them into violent confrontations.

    • It has shown up repeatedly in cocaine cowboy shootouts in public places and in the execution of whole families, including infants.
    • The country's leaders worry that the lack of economic incentives will turn more of its citizens into cocaine cowboys.
    • Shoulder to shoulder were cocaine cowboys, thousand-dollar-a-night call girls, arms merchants, DEA agents, spies, squint-eyed bankers, and beribboned Panamanian military thugs.

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