bootlegging
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7.6
- noun
- /ˈbuːtˌlɛɡɪŋ/
:
contrabando de licor
- The government cracked down on bootlegging, aiming to eliminate the illegal alcohol trade during Prohibition.
- bootlegging operation
Examples
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If Gyp is controlling the shore and the only route to the city, they're going to have a hard time running their bootlegging operation at a profit.
Blog text (25) -
If you support prohibition, you've helped raise gang warfare to a level not seen since the days of alcohol bootlegging.
Blog text (11) -
So, is this your secret bootlegging facility or what?
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Now, about this bootlegging business I got mixed up with.
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It's better than the bootlegging trade, don't you think?
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Everybody knows the big money's in bootlegging now.
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My parents are from a part of the USA that is legendary for bootlegging and illegal whiskey distilling.
Blog text (5) -
For Sam Giancana, his connection to the Kennedy family went back to the 1920s when JFK's father, Joseph Kennedy, kept a secret bootlegging business.
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Automobiles were also used to commit crimes, such as robbing banks and bootlegging liquor, during the period of prohibition.
Academic text (1996) -
Others elected to stay and live quietly on their private means, going into business or the professions—or even bootlegging during Prohibition.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
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4.5
To bring banned goods into or out of a country without paying taxes
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7.8
Making alcohol in secret without government permission
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3.8
Taking goods or people across a border in secret and against the law
How Illegal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bootlegging comes from the old practice of hiding bottles of alcohol in a boot to carry them secretly, so during the 1920s ban on alcohol it became the word for making, selling, or moving alcohol 'illegally'.