Meanings
alternative basuko · alternative bazuco · alternative bazuko
- uncountableCocaine paste, especially in the context of its manufacture or consumption in South America.
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.
1986, The Department of State Bulletin, page 901 more example
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].
2012, David F. Allen, The Cocaine Crisis, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 200
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Englishbazooka“rocket launcher”
- Spanishbazucar“to shake violently”
- Colombian Spanishbasuco
- Englishbasuco
From Colombian Spanish basuco, perhaps related to Spanish bazucar (“to shake violently”) or basura (“waste, trash”), or, alternatively, from English bazooka (“rocket launcher”), presumably because of the drug’s explosive effect. Doublet of bazooka (“crack cocaine”).
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Spanish basuco
- basucococaine paste
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basuco. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/basuco
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