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August 8, 2009

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droog
• noun
 informal a young man belonging to a street gang.
— origin 1962: coined by Anthony Burgess in A Clockwork Orange; alteration of Russian drug ‘friend’.

Pronunciation available online: www.askoxford.com

Source: Oxford Dictionary of English
www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780198610571

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