basuco
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Colombian Spanish basuco, which might have been influenced by the Spanish bazucar (“to shake severely”) or basura (“waste”).[1]
Noun edit
basuco (uncountable)
- 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 edit
- ^ 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.
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Variant of bazuco
Noun edit
basuco m (plural basucos)
Further reading edit
- “basuco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014