drug baron

noun

1. the head of an organization that deals in illegal drugs

Example Sentences

That meant using effects and make-up such as a fake beard, she explained, so she could play the drug baron in the first section of the musical.

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“When the state was not shouldering its responsibility towards this region, the drug baron was taking care of us by buying the crop every year.”

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Once listed by the United States as one of the world’s most wanted narcotics dealers, Mr. Noorzai was a prominent drug baron in Kandahar Province for decades.

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Colombia has extradited the drug baron leader of the country's biggest crime gang to the US, Colombia's president has announced.

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Some say this has made the country a fertile ground for drug barons.

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