NARCO-STATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does narco-state mean? 

• NARCO-STATE (noun)
  The noun NARCO-STATE has 1 sense:

1. an area that has been taken over and is controlled and corrupted by drug cartels and where law enforcement is effectively nonexistent

  Familiarity information: NARCO-STATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NARCO-STATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An area that has been taken over and is controlled and corrupted by drug cartels and where law enforcement is effectively nonexistent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Context example:

this Mexican town has become a narco-state that ships 100 pounds of cocaine to the United States every day

Hypernyms ("narco-state" is a kind of...):

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)