Meaning of cocaine cowboy | Babel Free

Definitions

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

slang

Examples

“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.”

“It was in Kansas City that he first smoked cocaine, and came close becoming either a cocaine cowboy or a bucket of fishbait as a result.”

“They can ride a bus 150 miles south to Culiacán, Sinaloa, make a manda (religious promise) to narcosantón Jesús Malverde, the patron saint of drug dealers, and become cocaine cowboys.”

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