narco

Related to narco: Narco Terrorism

narco

1. A police officer or federal agent specializing in narcotics and related crimes. Don't let anyone find out you're a narco down here, or you'll be as good as dead. The place is going to be crawling with narcos, so we can't move the product through here.
2. Someone controls the supply and distribution of narcotics, especially in Latin America. In this country, the politicians and the narcos shape control the law in equal measure. One of the leading narcos in the world was finally arrested by police.
3. Narcotics in general. The trafficking of narco in this region has gotten progressively worse over the years. The university kicked him out after a huge stash of narco was discovered in his dorm room.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

narc(o)

(ˈnɑrk(o))
1. n. a narcotic. (see also nark.) She’s been taking narcs.
2. mod. having to do with narcotics. Does he have a narc problem?
3. n. a federal narcotics agent; any narcotics enforcement officer. The narcs caught him.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • narc
  • you'll catch your death
  • you'll catch your death (of cold)
  • bark at the moon
  • bay at the moon
  • howl
  • fed
  • go all out
  • go all out for something
  • you'll never guess
References in periodicals archive
A trip to the shop where you forked over a cool $400 to $500 easily solved that hassle, although Narco made the experience difficult in the later years by cutting off parts supply to the dealer network.
Got Narco? Fuggedabout it
La marginalidad transformada por el narco abre la posibilidad de cambiar las relaciones sociales a favor de esta nueva situacion.
Los mecanismos mimeticos de reproduccion de la violencia vistos a traves de los narcocorridos
The Narcotic Farm shows how Narco was instrumental in convincing the American public that addicts needed doctors more than they needed jailers.
The Narcotic Farm: The Rise and Fall of America's First Prison for Drug Addicts By Nancy D. Campbell, J.P. Olsen, and Luke Walden
WORCESTER - Al Giordano, a former reporter for The Boston Phoenix, friend of Abbie Hoffman and founder of the Narco News Bulletin (narconews.com) will speak about "Authentic Journalism" at 7:30 p.m.
`Authentic Journalism' focus of talk
* And in the cause of journalism we're also pleased about a recent ruling by Judge Paula Omansky of the New York State Supreme Court dismissing libel charges against Mario Menendez, a Mexican journalist, and Al Giordano, editor and publisher of Narco News, an Internet magazine (www.narconews.com), published in Mexico, that reports on corruption and the drug war in Latin America.
FOLLOW-UPS: MONSANTO, NARCO NEWS
The Department of Justice has sent out subpoenas to the respondents of criminal charges in connection to the "Bikoy" narco list videos.
Robredo, 35 others summoned over sedition case
The list of winning narco politicians included two congressmen, one vice-governor, 18 mayors, three vice-mayors, one councilor and a board member.
DILG vows administrative charges to stick against 26 alleged narco-politicians who won in May polls
PRESIDENT Duterte finally named on Thursday night three congressmen and 43 local government officials in his narco list two weeks before the start of the campaign period for mid-term local elections.
Duterte tags 3 congressmen, 43 local government officials in 'narco list'
A Bronx jury convicted John Cornachio of second-degree grand larceny for holding a no show job so that he could steal from Narco Freedom, a Bronx-based non-profit that was funded by Medicaid and launched to offer substance abuse services in New York City, according to New York State Attorney General Eric T.
LI man convicted for Medicaid fraud