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narcoterrorism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
nar-coter-ror-ism
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Use of terrorist tactics as an element of the traffic in illegal narcotics.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

Etymology

From narco- + terrorism; coined by President of Peru from 1963 to 1968 and from 1980 to 1985 Fernando Belaúnde in 1983 when describing terrorist-type attacks against his nation's anti-narcotics police.

Usage

Inflected Forms

narco-terrorism (alternative)

Derived Forms

counternarcoterrorism

Synonyms

narcoterror

Questions

What does narcoterrorism mean?
Use of terrorist tactics as an element of the traffic in illegal narcotics.
Where does narcoterrorism come from?
From narco- + terrorism; coined by President of Peru from 1963 to 1968 and from 1980 to 1985 Fernando Belaúnde in 1983 when describing terrorist-type attacks against his nation's anti-narcotics police.

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