camello

馃惈
Meaning

  1. (masculine) camel
  2. (informal,masculine) pusher, drug dealer

Frequency

C1
Hyphenated as
ca鈥e鈥lo
Gender
鈾傦笍 Masculine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ka藞me蕽o/
Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish camello, from Vulgar Latin *cam膿llus, from Latin cam膿lus, from Ancient Greek 魏维渭畏位慰蟼 (k谩m膿los), 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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