单词 | buttlegger |
释义 | buttleggern. North American colloquial (originally U.S.). A person who smuggles or trades illegally in cigarettes. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > [noun] > smuggler > of certain goods owler1690 runner1719 flasker1816 opium smuggler1841 rum runner1917 dope-smuggler1937 buttlegger1945 stuffer1983 swallower1983 1945 Internat. Stereotypers & Electrotypers Union Jrnl. Apr. 321/2 Well I gotta go now. Got a date with my butt-legger. 1966 Ironwood (Mich.) Daily Globe 13 Apr. 4/1 This is a situation made to order for the small-time buttlegger, who can net up to $3,000 on the contents of a one-ton panel truck. 1995 R. Hornung At Edge of All Things iii. 21 The Mohawks knew he'd been working with buttleggers for years. 2015 N.Y. Post (Nexis) 8 July 21 In the middle are countless city bodegas; they get their product from the buttleggers and peddle it by the pack, mostly under the counter. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1945 |
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