drug baron

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   a person who controls an organization dealing in illegal drugs

   Synonymsdrug lord

   Broaderboss

Questions about drug baron

What does drug baron mean?

drug baron means "a person who controls an organization dealing in illegal drugs".

What is another word for drug baron?

Close synonyms include drug lord. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is drug baron a common word?

drug baron is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.