cocaine cowboy
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.61 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A cocaine smuggler or dealer whose activities are likely to lead them into violent confrontations.
Slang
Example Sentences
- "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."