drug bust

1. 1.

   seizure of illegal drugs by the police

   Synonymsdrugs bust

   Broaderimpoundment

Questions about drug bust

What does drug bust mean?

drug bust means "seizure of illegal drugs by the police".

What is another word for drug bust?

Close synonyms include drugs bust. 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 bust a common word?

drug bust is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.