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basuco en · NOUN

Etymology

From Colombian Spanish basuco, perhaps related to Spanish bazucar (“to shake violently”) or basura (“waste, trash”), or, alternatively, from English bazooka (“rocket launcher”), presumably because of the drug’s explosive effect. Doublet of bazooka (“crack cocaine”).

Meanings

1. (uncountable) Cocaine paste, especially in the context of its manufacture or consumption in South America.
   • In Columbia there seems to be no discrimination in the use of basuco by social class. However, the more expensive cocaine hydrochloride powder is generally used by artists, industrialists, and executives, who usually snort [it]. 2012, David F. Allen, The Cocaine Crisis, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 200:
   • Insidiously, the producers of basuco deliberately created a demand for this vicious product and priced it so that whole new segments of society—the young and the poor—could become drug consumers. 1986, The Department of State Bulletin, page 90:

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Translations (1)

es basuco (cocaine paste)

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