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bootlegger

[boot-leg-er] / ˈbutˌlɛg ər /
NOUN
illegal liquor dealer
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Abita, which has long made a non-alcoholic root beer with Louisiana cane sugar, unveiled Bayou Bootlegger at the end of 2015.

From Washington Post • Apr. 19, 2016

Turn left and he would be on Bootlegger Trail, a two-lane highway with a 70 mph speed limit shooting straight out into the country.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 8, 2012

He headed down Bootlegger Trail until he came to the dirt road that led to that trailer, which had three lawn mowers, several loose car tires and a boat in the front yard.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 8, 2012

Last autumn onetime Bootlegger William V. Dwyer decided to bolster up his feeble Americans, tail-enders in their group since 1929, by buying $35,000 worth of new players.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not to be outhandled, other truckers are known as Popper Stopper, Bootlegger, Mule Skinner and Silver Fox.

From Time Magazine Archive




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