narcotic

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Related topics: Drugs, medicines

nar·cot·ic1 /nɑːˈkɒtɪk $ nɑːrˈkɑː-/ noun [countableC]

1 narcotics [plural] especially American EnglishAmEMDD strong illegal drugs such as heroin or cocaine 毒品

the narcotics trade

毒品交易

narcotics agent (=a police officer who deals with the problems of narcotics) 缉毒警察

Examples from the Corpus

narcotics agent• Such figures cause narcotics agents to wring their hands.• Many of its narcotics agents may well be assisting the drug cartels and their hit squads.

2. MDa type of drug which makes you sleep and reduces pain 麻醉药，麻醉性镇痛药

Examples from the Corpus

narcotic• In the past month there had been 26 cases of battery, 24 narcotics cases, 10 thefts and five assaults.• In another case this spring, a Chicago gangster was convicted after moving a narcotics ring to Rochester, Minn.• Federal legislation banning narcotics had already been enacted three years earlier and the prohibition of alcohol was only two years away.• He died from an overdose of narcotics.• I had learned that kissing was a powerful narcotic.• By 2015, bitter enmities played themselves out in gang warfare, narcotics traffic, and addiction.

Related topics: Drug culture, Drugs, medicines

narcotic2 adjectiveadj

1 [only before noun] especially American EnglishAmEMDD relating to illegal drugs (有关)毒品的

narcotic addiction

毒瘾

2. MDa narcotic drug takes away pain or makes you sleep 麻醉(性)的

Examples from the Corpus

narcotic• She was prescribed antibiotics and analgesics including pethidine, which is a narcotic drug, and given oxygen.• Anti-alcohol campaigners deliberately seek to confuse alcohol with narcotic drugs.• How ludicrous it was, she thought, to have to swallow alcohol simply because of its temporarily narcotic effect.• They were dizzied by the sheer narcotic rush of Hong Kong.• He tried to cultivate a reputation for dangerous magical power by engaging in narcotic shamanistic seances.• James Harper, defending, said Colling believed his drinks had been spiked with a narcotic substance which caused his violent behaviour.

Origin narcotic1