drug dealer

noun

: a person who sells illegal drugs

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Echo Valley, a thriller directed by Beast’s Michael Pearce, eventually introduces a more conventional villain in Jackie, a sneering drug dealer played by Domhnall Gleeson, but there’s only life in it when Claire is serving as a complicated secondary antagonist. Alison Willmore, Vulture, 12 June 2025 Melvin Combs was a drug dealer who was fatally shot in 1972, when his son Sean Combs was three years old. Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 4 June 2025 In 1973, Hoover was sentenced to between 150 and 200 years in prison for ordering the murder of William Young, a drug dealer. Dan Gooding gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 May 2025 Among them is Tonic, which stars Blair (Sin City: A Dame to Kill For) as Sebastian Poe, a struggling jazz pianist who is given 24 hours to kill a dangerous drug dealer (Westwick) by a crooked cop (Jaso Coviello), and spirals into a moral and emotional tailspin. Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 15 May 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 18 Jun. 2025.

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