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bootlegging
noun as in contraband
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noun as in piracy
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Example Sentences
The building’s original architect was Henry Fernbach, and over the years it housed furriers, apparel factories and a parking garage favored by a bootlegging ring.
The two are stunned to discover Helen’s passionate letters in addition to hints about bootlegging and a jewelry heist.
Poor old Jay Gatsby made his money bootlegging, bought a fancy house to impress his ex and wound up dead, accused of a crime he did not commit.
With four simple words, a sport that was born out of bootlegging, good ole boys and fast cars graduated from a regional sideshow to a national spectacle.
Al Capone was at the top of the crime world until the feds nabbed him, not for his bootlegging schemes or the gangland murders he ordered, but for tax evasion.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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