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narcobourgeois

noun

Etymology

From narco- + bourgeois.

  1. derived from *burgz✻
  2. derived from *burg✻
  3. derived from borgeis — “town dweller”
  4. prefixed as narcobourgeois — “narco + bourgeois”

Definitions

  1. A member of the narcobourgeoisie.

    • Peru's traffickers do not represent a self-conscious narcobourgeois class (to borrow from Merrill Collett).
    • It also provided the prototype for the emergence of a new kind of paramilitary phenomenon explicitly tied to the drugs trade and the defence of the interests of the increasingly powerful coca-funded 'narcobourgeois'.
    • The very exemplar of a 1980s narcobourgeois, he travelled extensively and cultivated extremely profitable contacts.

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