travel agent

travel agent
   a dealer in illegal narcotics
   He allows his customers to go on a trip:
    Big John necked the embalming fluid and connected Cecil with pasta from the travel agent. (Fiennes, 1996 — Big John is the police, Cecil is cocaine, and pasta is coca paste)

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