drug dealer

noun

: a person who sells illegal drugs

Examples of drug dealer in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web About a decade later, in 1989, he was fatally shot by an Oakland drug dealer. Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 17 May 2024 Starting in 1989, the band members put aside their differences (Betts had initially been furious after Allman testified against the band’s drug dealer in 1976), and the Allmans regrouped yet again. David Browne, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2024 Rodriguez was arrested and convicted for arms trafficking and for serving in the paramilitary for the Norte del Valle cartel, considered a major ally of drug dealer Diego Montoya, alias Don Diego, who traffics cocaine. Peter Aitken, Fox News, 8 May 2024 Teresa, who had a conversation with Jennifer Aydin on the way there about online rumors that John Fuda was a drug dealer, decided to bring the accusations into the party. Liza Esquibias, Peoplemag, 6 May 2024 In the track, Toto delves into his adolescent stint as a drug dealer, grappling with the allure of wealth and confronting societal hypocrisy within Moroccan culture. Boutayna Chokrane, Rolling Stone, 5 May 2024 There, a drug dealer gives him a Shirley Temple that is laced with something hallucinatory. Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 3 May 2024 On the way back from a house call, Barbara drives upon a crime scene where a drug dealer and buyer are both wounded and incapacitated on the side of the road. Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Apr. 2024 Over the past two months, a jury of Northern California residents in Sacramento has heard from a half-dozen men and women who testified as prosecution witnesses on the day-to-day life of a drug dealer for the Aryan Brotherhood. Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 31 Mar. 2024

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“Drug dealer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drug%20dealer. Accessed 23 May. 2024.

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