英语词汇“book-legger”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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.

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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.

单词	book-legger
释义	> as lemmas book-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. extracted from -leggercomb. form < as lemmas
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