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bootlegger

[ US /ˈbutˌɫɛɡɝ/ ]
[ UK /bˈuːtlɛɡɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. someone who makes or sells illegal liquor

How To Use bootlegger In A Sentence

  • But the Recording Industry Assn. of America and the Motion Picture Assn. of America say they sometimes need to use subterfuge as they pursue bootleggers in flea markets and on the Internet. April 9th, 2007
  • Now, we've got a house on V street, around the corner, that we suspect is being used by bootlegger's and drug stoolies as a depot for mules.
  • Pubs, clubs and people's homes were still the most common places for bootleggers to sell illicit goods.
  • Homer turns bootlegger when Springfield enforces an antiquated prohibition law.
  • There're moonshiners, bootleggers, methamphetamine manufacturers... they're not associated with each other. TISHOMINGO BLUES
  • the preachers and the bootleggers found they had a community of interests
  • American ideal that feels especially exhalted in a year dominated by anti-government sentiment: the bootlegger is the lone frontiersman, the rebel outlaw, the Marlboro Man. Msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
  • He went after bootleggers, who sent him and his family death threats, he raided a Chinese opium kingpin who was paying off Buffalo cops, cracked down on coal profiteers, prosecuted strikers who had dynamited a rail line, and even had Schwab in court on liquor violation charges. Wild Bill Donovan
  • To the bootleggers, speakeasy operators, crooked druggists, fake rabbis, fallen priests, alky cookers, and various other violators dragged into court, the fines were simply fractional additions to their overhead. LAST CALL
  • It’s called a bootlegger’s turn, staple of TV shows, Tennessee moonshiner’s gift to the world. Venom
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