bazuco

English

Etymology

From Colombian Spanish bazuco.

Noun

bazuco (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of basuco.

Spanish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Formed from base, for being obtained from cocaine base paste;[1] compare English freebase. Alternatively, perhaps related to bazucar (“to shake violently”) or basura (“waste, trash”), or from English bazooka (“rocket launcher”), presumably because of the drug’s explosive effect.[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /baˈθuko/ [baˈθu.ko] (Spain)
  • IPA(key): /baˈsuko/ [baˈsu.ko] (Latin America, Philippines)
  • Rhymes: -uko
  • Syllabification: ba‧zu‧co

Noun

bazuco m (plural bazucos)

  1. (Colombia) basuco, cocaine paste

References

  1. ^ “bazuco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
  2. ^ “basuco, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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