bootleggern.

Brit.

/ˈbuːtˌlɛɡə/, U.S.

/ˈbutˌlɛɡər/

Etymology: < bootleg n. + -er suffix¹. Compare bootleg n. 2.

One who carries liquor in his boot-legs; (hence) an illicit trader in liquor.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > trader > [noun] > black marketeer or boot-legger

bootlegger1889

blind-pigger1894

legger1926

black marketeer1941

blacketeer1942

black marketer1942

1889 Sanger Rep. in J. B. Thoburn Hist. Oklahoma (1916) I. 223 Liquor dealers (or as they are called here ‘boot-leggers’).

1890 Voice (N.Y.) July 17 The ‘boot-legger’ is a grim spectre to the anti-Prohibitionist... He is a man who wears boots in whose tops are concealed a flask or two of liquor.

1904 Topeka Daily Capital 29 May 4 A United States marshall arrested a boot-legger at Osborne for selling whisky without a government licence... Bootlegging is a bad business.

1927 ‘S. Rohmer’ Moon of Madness 14 A deck load of Dagos..that would have frightened a Chicago bootlegger.

1948 Chicago Tribune 28 Nov. 41/5 The sale of liquor is banned here on the Sabbath, and that's when the bootlegger bootlegs.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	bootlegger
释义	bootleggern. Brit. /ˈbuːtˌlɛɡə/, U.S. /ˈbutˌlɛɡər/ Etymology: < bootleg n. + -er suffix¹. Compare bootleg n. 2. One who carries liquor in his boot-legs; (hence) an illicit trader in liquor. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > [noun] > black marketeer or boot-legger bootlegger1889 blind-pigger1894 legger1926 black marketeer1941 blacketeer1942 black marketer1942 1889 Sanger Rep. in J. B. Thoburn Hist. Oklahoma (1916) I. 223 Liquor dealers (or as they are called here ‘boot-leggers’). 1890 Voice (N.Y.) July 17 The ‘boot-legger’ is a grim spectre to the anti-Prohibitionist... He is a man who wears boots in whose tops are concealed a flask or two of liquor. 1904 Topeka Daily Capital 29 May 4 A United States marshall arrested a boot-legger at Osborne for selling whisky without a government licence... Bootlegging is a bad business. 1927 ‘S. Rohmer’ Moon of Madness 14 A deck load of Dagos..that would have frightened a Chicago bootlegger. 1948 Chicago Tribune 28 Nov. 41/5 The sale of liquor is banned here on the Sabbath, and that's when the bootlegger bootlegs. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1889
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