Masculine
camello
Meaning
Concepts
Camelus
gammafly
silver Y moth
two-hump camel
two-hump camel
drug trafficker
Synonyms
Camelus
humpy
polilla gamma
oont
envie del desierto
traficante de drogas
gamma de plata
gardama de hortícolas
tarea pesada o desagradable
difícil llevar a cabo
camello asiático
Translations
chameau
Kamel
camelo
cammello
kameel
deve
camell
καμήλα
camèl
جمل
camelusFrequency
Hyphenated as
ca‧me‧llo
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kaˈmeʝo/
Etymology
In summary
Inherited from Old Spanish camello, from Vulgar Latin *camēllus, from Latin camēlus, from Ancient Greek κάμηλος (kámēlos), ultimately from Proto-Semitic *gamal-. More at camel. The sense of "drug dealer" comes from the fact that, in the early 20th century, dealers used to hide their drugs on their back when police came near. Some dealers even used to pretend to be hunchbacks, hiding the drugs in fake humps made of cardboard or tin.
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