bazuco

From Colombian Spanish bazuco.

bazuco (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of basuco.

• basuco

Formed from base, for being obtained from cocaine base paste;^[1] compare English freebase. Alternatively, perhaps related to bazucar (“to shake violently”) or basura (“waste, trash”), or from English bazooka (“rocket launcher”), presumably because of the drug’s explosive effect.^[2]

• IPA^(key): /baˈθuko/ [baˈθu.ko] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /baˈsuko/ [baˈsu.ko] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -uko
• Syllabification: ba‧zu‧co

bazuco m (plural bazucos)

1. (Colombia) basuco, cocaine paste

• “bazuco”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010