traficante

/tɾafiˈkante/ · B1 · adj

dealer

💊💰 traficante = traffic + -ante: one who traffics, a trafficker

It comes from traficar (to trade, deal), the same root as English traffic, which came through Italian trafficare. The -ante ending marks the person doing it, as in estudiante. In everyday use it usually means drug dealer: traficante de drogas.

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