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What is another word for bootlegger?

Pronunciation: [bˈuːtlɛɡə] (IPA)

Bootlegger is a term used to describe individuals or organizations that illegally sell or distribute alcohol. It is commonly associated with the Prohibition era in the United States but still used today to describe those who engage in illicit alcohol trade. Synonyms for bootlegger include moonshiner, rumrunner, speakeasy operator, smuggler, and illegal distiller. Moonshiner refers to someone who produces and distributes illegal alcohol, while a rumrunner specialized in smuggling rum during Prohibition. Speakeasy operator refers to someone who runs an establishment that serves illegal alcohol. On the other hand, a smuggler brings in alcohol from another country or state, while an illegal distiller produces alcohol without a license.
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The first of these will be saying "and he told me that a bootlegger he knew had cleaned up a thousand dollars a week since January."
"Perfect Behavior A Guide for Ladies and Gentlemen in all Social Crises"
Donald Ogden Stewart
Here you will seat yourself at a table with three other gentlemen, the first of whom will be remarking, as you sit down, "and I know for a fact that this bootlegger is making over fifty thousand dollars a year."
"Perfect Behavior A Guide for Ladies and Gentlemen in all Social Crises"
Donald Ogden Stewart
They prate about this and that rich man breaking the law and getting by with it; or this and that bootlegger or what not, has a pull, or has the authorities bought and paid for, or is too smooth to get caught.
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Durham, Andrew Everett

Famous quotes with Bootlegger

  • The round-square may be impossible, but we believe in it because it is impossible. [E.E.] Cummings is a very great expert in all these, so to speak, illegal syntactical devices: his misuse of parts of speech, his use of negative prefixes, his word-coining, his systematic relation of words that grammar and syntax don’t permit us to relate—all this makes him a magical bootlegger or moonshiner of language, one who intoxicates us on a clear liquor no government has legalized with its stamp.
    Randall Jarrell

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