bootlegger
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Such was the case with Chalky White, the Atlantic City bootlegger in HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire,” whom he based on his father, who was raised in the Jim Crow South.
From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2021
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 bootlegger strong-arms a jazz cornetist and his combo at a 1920s Kansas City speakeasy.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2020
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
Vocabulary lists containing bootlegger
Novel Study: The Great Gatsby, Chapters 1–6
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American History - High School
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Chapter 13, Sections 1–3
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