drug dealer

noun

: a person who sells illegal drugs

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Outerlands stars Dillon as thirtysomething Cass, who hustles jobs as a server, nanny and party drug dealer to make rent on their tiny San Francisco apartment. Glenn Garner, Deadline, 31 Oct. 2025 The place is the Savin Bar + Kitchen, in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood, where immediately inside the front door, patrons are greeted by a larger-than-life framed mugshot of Bulger — the mob-boss, murderer, bank robber, drug dealer and extortionist — peering cooly out from under his fedora. Tovia Smith, NPR, 24 Oct. 2025 Federal investigators have alleged Iza began communicating with Chapell’s girlfriend and relayed to Saavedra that the party planner was a drug dealer. Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025 An Irish drug dealer commands a billion-dollar cocaine empire from the Emirates. David Remnick, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 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 7 Nov. 2025.

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