| 单词 | drug bust |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdrug bust drug bust n. colloquial (originally U.S.) an apprehension or punishment for illegal drug use; (also) a raid carried out by a law-enforcement agency in connection with the suspected possession of illegal drugs; a seizure of illegal drugs. ΚΠ 1965 C. Brown Manchild in Promised Land vii. 183 If there wasn't so much time on a drug bust, I suppose a lot of other people would've gotten into it. 1968 N.Y. Times 11 June 51/3 Drug busts have happened here this week... Police are up tight so please keep cool. 1979 R. W. Larkin Suburban Youth in Cultural Crisis iv. 98 There is a conspiracy of silence about drugs and sex. Yet, every so often, a drug bust, pregnancy, [etc.]..will provoke a confrontation. 1984 Economist (Nexis) 1 Dec. 44 Before this drug bust, which was the biggest anywhere ever, Mexico's marijuana exports were reckoned at 1,300 tons a year. 1995 V.I. Pride Feb. 23/1 He was involved with numerous drug busts in the territory through his work with Customs. 2002 Sydney Morning Herald 23 Mar. (News Review section) 35/6 The world has yet to hear the explanations for the recent drug busts of the three Winter Olympic medallists..who were caught taking the latest variation of a blood booster, darbepoetin. < as lemmas |
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