bootlegger
Example Sentences
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Why conflate early Renaissance aristocrats with early 20th century bootleggers?
From Los Angeles Times
The Stardust was conceived by Anthony Cornero, a bootlegger and gambling entrepreneur who died in suspicious circumstances in 1955 before the project was completed.
From BBC
Hence, we refer to alcohol smugglers as bootleggers, because they could hide flasks in their boots—not, say, “barrel hiders.”
From Scientific American
The sports merch bootlegger reminds us who truly owns our culture.
From Los Angeles Times
Prohibition brought out bootleggers - some of Jewish heritage such as Charlie Birger - who clashed with the Ku Klux Klan, which advocated Jew-hatred and racism but temperance when it came to alcohol.
From Washington Times
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