Criminal
Criminal noun - A person who has committed a crime.
Drug dealer and criminal are semantically related. In some cases you can replace phrase "Drug dealer" with "Criminal", this terms are similar.
Drug dealer
Drug dealer noun - An unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs.
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Synonyms for Drug dealer
Criminal and drug dealer are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Criminal" instead a noun phrase "Drug dealer".
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- It gets so bad that veteran criminal and drug dealer Bodie, who has been in the drug game since he was 12 and seemed completely hardened to it, has an Even Evil Has Standards reaction when a group of Marlo's victims, (including Bodie's friend Little Kevin) are discovered all at one.
Source: Lack of Empathy -
In the Tom Clancy novel Without Remorse, a Corrupt Cop murders a drug dealer that his (criminal) boss suspected of being a security risk.
Source: Killer Cop -
In Power, Tasha loves James, her husband, because he's a major drug dealer, and his attempts at getting out of the criminal lifestyle turn her off.
Source: All Girls Want Bad Boys
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