fartsovshchiks
fartsovshchiks is the plural of fartsovshchik.
Meaning of fartsovshchik
Noun
fartsovshchik (plural fartsovshchiks)
- A person involved in the illegal trade of fartsovka.
- Locate a potential fartsovshchik – anyone under forty with a modicum of dress sense. […] Express yourself in a pronounced American accent: no black marketeer worth his salt wants to encumber himself with slumping pounds sterling.1986, Marc Polonsky, Russell Taylor, USSR, From an Original Idea by Karl Marx, Faber and Faber, →ISBN
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- What is fartsovshchiks the plural of?
- Fartsovshchiks is the plural of fartsovshchik.
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