单词 | bootlegging |
释义 | bootleggingn.adj. Illicit trade in liquor. Also attributive and as adj. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > illegal or immoral trading > [noun] > in liquor bootlegging1903 blind-pigging1918 society > trade and finance > illegal or immoral trading > [adjective] > in liquor bootlega1889 bootlegging1903 1903 Cincinnati Enquirer 3 Jan. 1/3 In the pulpit was a minister when arrested for ‘boot~legging’. 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. 1919 T. K. Holmes Man from Tall Timber vi. 59 Who's got the forty-rod, Steve?.. There's a bootlegging place somewhere, I'll be bound. 1922 Glasgow Herald 16 Sept. 9 He denied that he had been engaged in ‘bootlegging’ along the American shore. 1927 Sat. Evening Post (N.Y.) 24 Dec. 44/2 It would make me into a bootlegging grandfather. 1958 Manch. Guardian Weekly 1 May 6/1 Customs officers..regarded it as no business of theirs to prevent the ‘boot-legging’ of the long-play records imported privately in thousands. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.1903 |
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