bootlegger
Example Sentences
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A woman contends with gossip and scandal while she makes her way as a bootlegger in prohibition-era Virginia.
From Washington Post
Why conflate early Renaissance aristocrats with early 20th century bootleggers?
From Los Angeles Times
The time is 1929, a time of bootleggers and Tommy guns, and Velma has, as they used to say, done her man wrong.
From Los Angeles Times
Klansmen raided bootlegger operations, then had the gall to bill cities $11,200 for their services.
From Los Angeles Times
Illicit liquor has also become a hugely profitable industry across India, where bootleggers pay no taxes and sell enormous quantities of their product to the poor at a cheap rate.
From Seattle Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
