drug dealer

noun

: a person who sells illegal drugs

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Facey acted as consigliere to Sanchez and, after his law license was suspended in February, became a drug dealer himself, prosecutors wrote in a motion seeking to jail the attorney pending a trial. Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2025 For so many years of his career as a drug dealer, he’d been told the medicine was protected by a higher power. Andy Greenberg, Wired News, 22 May 2025 After crashing an exchange with a local drug dealer — $10 million for Castro's contacts — and chasing Torque through the back alleys of L.A., Hondo puts a bullet between Torque's eyes. Randall Colburn, EW.com, 17 May 2025 Williams plays a sheriff, who looks into the matter, while Montgomery plays the mother’s drug dealer. Abigail Lee, Variety, 21 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for drug dealer

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“Drug dealer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drug%20dealer. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.

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