drug lord

1. 1.

   a person who controls an organization dealing in illegal drugs

   Synonymsdrug baron

   Broaderboss

Questions about drug lord

What does drug lord mean?

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

What is another word for drug lord?

Close synonyms include drug baron. 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 lord a common word?

drug lord 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.