OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 6977

mule

/mjuːl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
acémila • mula • mulo
The generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.
One day he ran into a herd of a half dozen elk, so he rode his mule down the canyon three or four miles, leaving the sheep alone.
burro • mula
A person paid to smuggle drugs.
Cocaine packet ingestion (these patients referred to as “mules”) may warrant surgery, Golytely or expectant passage.
“Yeah, in Denver, we know about Uriarte's involvement in meth. Our Las Cruces office seized over six hundred pounds of methamphetamine from two of his mules last year.”
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