basuco
basuco noun: cocaine paste, especially in the context of its manufacture or consumption in South America.
Noun
basuco (uncountable)
- Cocaine paste, especially in the context of its manufacture or consumption in South America.
- Insidiously, the producers of basuco deliberately created a demand for this vicious product and priced it so that whole new segments of society—the young and the poor—could become drug consumers.1986, The Department of State Bulletin, page 90
- In Columbia there seems to be no discrimination in the use of basuco by social class. However, the more expensive cocaine hydrochloride powder is generally used by artists, industrialists, and executives, who usually snort [it].2012, David F. Allen, The Cocaine Crisis, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 200
Forms of basuco
| alternative form | basuko |
|---|---|
| alternative form | bazuco |
| alternative form | bazuko |
Origin of basuco
From Colombian Spanish basuco, perhaps related to Spanish bazucar (“to shake violently”) or basura (“waste, trash”), or, alternatively, from English bazooka (“rocket launcher”), presumably because of the drug’s explosive effect. Doublet of bazooka (“crack cocaine”).
Questions about basuco
- What does basuco mean?
- Basuco means cocaine paste, especially in the context of its manufacture or consumption in South America.
- What part of speech is basuco?
- Basuco is a noun.
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