| 单词 | meat-legger |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmeat-legger Forming compounds denoting a person who or organization which distributes or sells a specified product or commodity illegally, as book-legger, meat-legger, organ-legger, etc. ΚΠ 1921 Trend 21 Nov. 259/2 [He sends] his order—and a fat check—to his favourite book-legger for unexpurgated editions. 1945 Chicago Daily News 12 July 12/2 Most of the counterfeits have been used by steakleggers down East. 1946 Listener 15 June 14/1 That assurance is even more important than ever in these days of ‘meat-leggers’ and unscrupulous butchers. 1969 J. Kirkup Streets of Asia ii. 75 Gangland battles and street fights are common between rival book-leggers gunning for the ‘rights’ to an Ian Fleming. 1973 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Apr. 451/5 A sinister group of organ-leggers who go beyond the resurrectionists and try to keep the hospitals supplied with adequate numbers of fresh organs for transplants. 1996 Sci. Amer. Mar. 8/1 Shadowy organ-leggers pluck victims off the street to extend the lives of the rich. < as lemmas |
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