What Does This Mean?
French slang noun from « aller au charbon » (to go to the grind). Wiktionnaire records it as street slang for a retail drug dealer; the same word family also carries the familiar sense of someone who works relentlessly, from the verb « charbonner » (to work hard). In the drug-trade sense it is a neutral report of the vocabulary, not an endorsement.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"Il charbonne depuis des années, c'est un vrai charbonneur."
LORE & ORIGIN
Wiktionnaire gives « charbonneur » a single sense, drug slang for a retail dealer, derived from « charbon » (« celui qui va au charbon »), with citations from Laurent Chabrun (Affaires marseillaises, 2014) and Le Monde (9 March 2021 and 11 December 2021). Its page for the verb « charbonner » lists a familiar sense « to work » and a slang sense « to sell drugs », and dates the verb to the 12th century.
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