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mule
noun- a person who physically smuggles drugs or other contraband US, 1922
- How? Simple, he thought, with carefully established networks of “mules” to bring it into the States. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Death Wish, p. 32, 1977
- Now you just stand there where I can see you and give your mule the come-ahead. — Gerald Petievich, Money Men, p. 87, 1981
- We’re just the mules, comprende? — Repo Man, 1984
- Bullshit, I ain’t handling no dope. He thought about a mule, a buffer between him and the consequences. — Richard Price, Clockers, p. 179, 1992
- An attorney of modest talents stood little chance of landing a billionaire narcotrafficer as a client; Mordecai was lucky to get the occasional mule or offloader. — Carl Hiaasen, Strip Tease, p. 198, 1993
- I know what the term “mule” means on the street, but I have never met one so young. — Mary Rose McGeady, Are you out there, God?, p. 9, 1999
- It’s not like you can put it in a condom up some mule’s asshole, right? — Traffic, 2000
- More than 10% of the women currently in jail are Jamaican drug mules who swallowed rubber wraps of cocaine and boarded flights to this country. — Guardian, 30 September 2003
- a Vietnamese who carried supplies for the Viet Cong or the North Vietnamese Army US
- These mules made their way down the Ho Chi Minh Trail, or along the numerous resupply routes within South Vietnam transporting their goods on thier backs or by bicycle. — Gregory Clark, Words of the Vietnam War, p. 357, 1990
- in motor racing, a car used for tests and practice US
- — John Edwards, Auto Dictionary, p. 110, 1993
- a small, motorised platform used for transporting supplies or personnel US, 1903
- A mechanical mule–a heavy weapons carrier that looked nothing like a mule but rather resembled an oversized toy wagon–dodged one of the stacks, went over a curb, and roared down a sidewalk, a 106-mm recoilless rifle bouncing in its flatbed. — Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War, p. 41, 1977
- They could be rolled along the ground by eight or ten men, or pulled by small wheeled gas-powered tugs called Mules. — Charlie A. Beckwith and Donald Knox, Delta Force, p. 212, 1983
- The rest of the squad would then manhandle the bombs onto the pier–large bombs would be rolled down an incline or removed by electric “mules,” and small bombs and boxes of ammunition might be passed hand to hand or transported by hand trucks. — Robert L. Allen, The Port Chicago Mutiny, p. 47, 1989
- a railway brakeman US, 1929
- — Ramon Adams, The Language of the Railroader, p. 103, 1977
- an infertile woman TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 1986
- — Lise Winer, Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago, 2003
- marijuana that has been soaked in whisky US
- — American Speech, p. 87, May 1955: “Narcotic argot along the Mexican border”
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