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narcobourgeois en · NOUN

Etymology

From narco- + bourgeois.

Meanings

1. A member of the narcobourgeoisie.
   • The very exemplar of a 1980s narcobourgeois, he travelled extensively and cultivated extremely profitable contacts. 2012, Andre Cedilot, Mafia Inc.: The Long, Bloody Reign of Canada's Sicilian Clan, page 141:
   • 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'. 2005, Doug Stokes, America's Other War: Terrorizing Colombia, page 76:
   • Peru's traffickers do not represent a self-conscious narcobourgeois class (to borrow from Merrill Collett). 1989, Donald J. Mabry, The Latin American Narcotics Trade and U.S. National Security, page 66:

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