单词 | drug house |
释义 | > as lemmasdrug house drug house n. (a) a business involved in the manufacture, sale, or distribution of drugs; (b) originally U.S. a residential property from which drugs are sold illegally. ΚΠ 1814 Times 25 Apr. 1/2 (advt.) Wanted, in a Wholesale Drug-house, a Partner, with from 5,000l. to 8,000l. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. iv. 25 Clerk in the drug-house. 1932 Econ. Geogr. 8 312/1 About the year 1853, Wallace Brothers, wholesale and general merchants of Statesville, North Carolina, were solicited by New York wholesale drug houses to provide them with Jamestown (jimson) weed. 1952 M. Cussler & M. L. de Give 'Twixt Cup & Lip iv. 74 I'll send for a lot of vitamin samples from the big drug houses. 1983 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 12 May Police bought stolen property and drugs, including heroin, cocaine and synthetic opiates..at the ‘drug house’. 2001 N.Y. Times 24 June i. 14/1 Some Dominican groups..now sell Ecstasy along with heroin and cocaine from drug houses in Washington Heights in Manhattan to buyers..from as far away as Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia. < as lemmas |
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