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narcobourgeois

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English

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Etymology

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From narco- +‎ bourgeois.

Noun

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narcobourgeois (plural narcobourgeois)

  1. A member of the narcobourgeoisie.
    • 1989, Donald J. Mabry, The Latin American Narcotics Trade and U.S. National Security[1], page 66:
      Peru's traffickers do not represent a self-conscious narcobourgeois class (to borrow from Merrill Collett).
    • 2005, Doug Stokes, America's Other War: Terrorizing Colombia[2], page 76:
      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'.
    • 2012, Andre Cedilot, Mafia Inc.: The Long, Bloody Reign of Canada's Sicilian Clan[3], page 141:
      The very exemplar of a 1980s narcobourgeois, he travelled extensively and cultivated extremely profitable contacts.