From: Eugene Leitl (Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Wed Aug 08 2001 - 04:28:23 MDT
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Sean Kenny wrote:
> It's from A Clockwork Orange by the one of the greatest English
> Novelists Anthony Burgess - he claimed it was the derivative of a
> Russian word, roughly similar to Cohorts.
droog (written drug) means "friend" in Russian. Nowadays one would have
used "bratva" (not britva), which roughly means brothers, in the organized
crime/gang sense.
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