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bootlegger

[boot-leg-er] / ˈbutˌlɛg ər /
NOUN
illegal liquor dealer
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The son of one-time bootlegger Elmo Lewis and the cousin of TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart and country star Mickey Gilley, Lewis was born in Ferriday, Louisiana.

From Seattle Times Oct. 28, 2022

In 1934, Carl Kaelin, a failed chicken farmer and former whiskey bootlegger, scraped together $680 and, alongside his wife Margaret, opened an eponymous family restaurant.

From Salon Sep. 7, 2021

Outlaw and bootlegger Joseph Henry Loveless’ bones were found in an Idaho cave on two separate dates, in 1979 and 1991.

From Fox News Feb. 14, 2020

A Manhattan bootlegger courts a woman who has been flirting with his right-hand man.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 1, 2019

He trembled with the thought of the white men in the bank—the men who helped him buy and mortgage houses—discovering that this raggedy bootlegger was his sister.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison




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