cocaine cowboy
Flashy drug smuggler
A cocaine cowboy is a drug trafficker, especially one associated with the violent Miami cocaine trade of the late 1970s and 1980s.
The term evokes flashy, reckless criminality—fast money, faster cars, and gunfights.
It can extend to anyone living dangerously on illicit wealth: He thought he was some kind of cocaine cowboy, but he was just a small-time dealer.
- narcoticAddictive sedative drug
- ScarfaceCriminal's disfigurement-based nickname
- ringleaderChief organizer of wrongdoing
- smugglerIllegal goods transporter
- gun runnerIllegal firearms trafficker
fugitive · Miami Vice · dealer · excess · drug money · dirty money · powder keg · raid · South Florida · Miami Beach · extradition · Colombia · luxury cars · high roller · speedboat · trafficker · stimulant · mafia
cocaine cowboyDEA agent
Federal drug enforcement officer
narcotics officer · federal prosecutor · FBI agent · undercover cop · narc
cocaine cowboycartel leader
Head of criminal syndicate
drug lord · kingpin · cartel boss · drug baron · Pablo Escobar
cocaine cowboystraight arrow
Honest, principled person
square · family man · solid citizen · nine-to-fiver · civilian
cocaine, cowboy, cowboys, cowboyed, cowboying, boyish, boyhood