drug peddler

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   an unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs

   Synonymspusherpeddlerdrug dealerdrug trafficker

   Broaderdealercriminal

Questions about drug peddler

What does drug peddler mean?

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

What is another word for drug peddler?

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

drug peddler 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.