| 单词 | drug dealing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdrug dealing drug dealing adj. and n. (a) adj. (originally) that sells medicinal drugs; (now) that sells or traffics in illegal drugs; (b) n. (originally) the selling of medicinal drugs; (now) the selling or trafficking of illegal drugs. ΚΠ 1795 J. M. Good Hist. Med. iii. 185 The ignorance of the druggists, and the drug-dealing grocers at Marlow, has been productive of effects not less lamentable and deleterious. 1847 Water-cure Jrnl. Dec. 357/1 What a sad history of drug dealing might be written... The drug treatment kills more than it cures. 1889 Penny Illustr. Paper 15 June 43/4 Orders began to pour in..through the wholesale drug-dealing houses from whom chemists and grocers obtain their supplies of medicines. 1902 Arizona Republican 29 Sept. 5 (advt.) Modern Drug Dealing... Goodman's Prescription Pharmacy. 1914 N.Y. Tribune 24 June 16/7 (heading) Five other men and one woman are sent to prison for drug dealing. 1925 Washington Post 1 Mar. i. 2/2 The twenty-seventh person arrested in connection with a drive Federal agents have been making against an alleged ‘drug dealing gang’. 1989 Life Autumn 152/3 (caption) Mingo County busted the drug-dealing Preece clan in 1988. 2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 18 June 25/3 Social abuses ranging all the way from polystyrene tea cups to routine drug dealing and underage prostitution. < as lemmas |
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