I. noun
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agent
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Many of its narcotics agents may well be assisting the drug cartels and their hit squads.
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He died from an overdose of narcotics.
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By 2015, bitter enmities played themselves out in gang warfare, narcotics traffic, and addiction.
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Federal legislation banning narcotics had already been enacted three years earlier and the prohibition of alcohol was only two years away.
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I had learned that kissing was a powerful narcotic .
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In another case this spring, a Chicago gangster was convicted after moving a narcotics ring to Rochester, Minn.
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In the past month there had been 26 cases of battery, 24 narcotics cases, 10 thefts and five assaults.
II. adjective
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Anti-alcohol campaigners deliberately seek to confuse alcohol with narcotic drugs.
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He tried to cultivate a reputation for dangerous magical power by engaging in narcotic shamanistic seances.
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How ludicrous it was, she thought, to have to swallow alcohol simply because of its temporarily narcotic effect.
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James Harper, defending, said Colling believed his drinks had been spiked with a narcotic substance which caused his violent behaviour.
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She was prescribed antibiotics and analgesics including pethidine, which is a narcotic drug, and given oxygen.
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They were dizzied by the sheer narcotic rush of Hong Kong.