"cocaine cowboy" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1986, Steven Wisotsky, Breaking the Impasse in the War on Drugs, page 110",
          "text": "It has shown up repeatedly in cocaine cowboy shootouts in public places and in the execution of whole families, including infants.",
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          "ref": "1991, North American International Business, Vol. 4, Iss. 1-6, p. 55",
          "text": "The country's leaders worry that the lack of economic incentives will turn more of its citizens into cocaine cowboys."
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          "ref": "2004, Chuck Pfarrer, Warrior Soul: The Memoir Of A Navy Seal, page 118",
          "text": "Shoulder to shoulder were cocaine cowboys, thousand-dollar-a-night call girls, arms merchants, DEA agents, spies, squint-eyed bankers, and beribboned Panamanian military thugs.",
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          "ref": "2011, Danny Rolling, Sondra London, The Making of a Serial Killer, page 117",
          "text": "It was in Kansas City that he first smoked cocaine, and came close becoming either a cocaine cowboy or a bucket of fishbait as a result.",
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          "text": "They can ride a bus 150 miles south to Culiacán, Sinaloa, make a manda (religious promise) to narcosantón Jesús Malverde, the patron saint of drug dealers, and become cocaine cowboys.",
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        "(slang) A cocaine smuggler or dealer whose activities are likely to lead them into violent confrontations."
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