drug dealer

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   an unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs

   Synonymspusherdrug peddlerpeddlerdrug trafficker

   Broaderdealercriminal

Questions about drug dealer

What does drug dealer mean?

drug dealer means "an unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs".

What is another word for drug dealer?

Close synonyms include pusher, drug peddler, peddler, drug trafficker. 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 dealer a common word?

drug dealer 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.