basuco

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Colombian Spanish basuco, perhaps related to Spanish bazucar (“to shake violently”) or basura (“waste, trash”),[1][2] or, alternatively, from English bazooka (“rocket launcher”), presumably because of the drug’s explosive effect.[2] Doublet of bazooka (“crack cocaine”).

Noun

basuco (uncountable)

  1. Cocaine paste, especially in the context of its manufacture or consumption in South America.
    • 1986, The Department of State Bulletin, page 90:
      Insidiously, the producers of basuco deliberately created a demand for this vicious product and priced it so that whole new segments of society—the young and the poor—could become drug consumers.
    • 2012, David F. Allen, The Cocaine Crisis, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 200:
      In Columbia there seems to be no discrimination in the use of basuco by social class. However, the more expensive cocaine hydrochloride powder is generally used by artists, industrialists, and executives, who usually snort [it].

References

  1. ^ Julia Schultz (2018) “Subject Fields and Spheres of Life Influenced by Spanish since 1901”, in The Influence of Spanish on the English Language since 1801: A Lexical Investigation, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, part II, chapter section 8 (Gastronomy), subsection 4 (Geology and geography), subsubsection 1 (Tobacco and intoxicants), page 206.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 “basuco, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Anagrams

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /baˈsuko/ [baˈsu.ko]
  • Rhymes: -uko
  • Syllabification: ba‧su‧co

Noun

basuco m (plural basucos)

  1. alternative form of bazuco (“basuco, cocaine paste”)

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