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单词 bootlegging
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bootleggingn.adj.

Brit. /ˈbuːtˌlɛɡɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈbutˌlɛɡɪŋ/
Etymology: < bootleg n. + -ing suffix1. Compare bootleg v.
Illicit trade in liquor. Also attributive and as adj.
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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).
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