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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

  • the dry vote led by preachers and bootleggers
  • And finally, no group trafficked in more illicit liquor than the bootleggers.
  • Instead of real life's morlock tobacco bootleggers and DVD touts, Pantoland has sweet Aladdie, a boy so poor he does not have a name.
  • Was it a set-up by powerful but corrupt Saudis who felt the bootleggers had undercut their market or ripped them off over bribes or a share of the profits?
  • A service station worker in Georgia, he began racing against local bootleggers across fields, on ragged dirt tracks, and on asphalt speedways.
  • It was a rough-and-tumble business, and a Bronfman brother-in-law managing several of the warehouses was shotgunned to death by bootleggers in 1922. Fortune’s Fool
  • Al Capone and bootleggers filled the vacuum: bathtub spirits, peepholes in the door, Joe-sent-me.
  • Only the little people pay taxes.; and Al Capone, mafia hitman, bootlegger and perhaps the most famous tax evader of all time, served his longest sentence, seven years, for tax evasion. Elizabeth Lynch: Ai Weiwei: Artist, Dissident and ... Tax Evader?
  • The much-reviled "bootlegger," after all, is just a businessman, albeit a businessman without an office or membership in a chamber of commerce. Nunatsiaq News - Online
  • When he wasn't hanging out with bootleggers in Wyoming roadhouses, he was going on great binges with F. Scott.
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