单词 | buttlegging |
释义 | buttleggingn. North American colloquial (originally U.S.). The illicit trade in cigarettes; cigarette smuggling. ΚΠ 1962 Rocky Mount (N. Carolina) Sunday Telegram 11 Mar. b2/6 Tax Director William A. Kingley has asked a New Jersey legislative committee to approve funds for hiring four additional agents to combat ‘butt-legging’. 1981 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 89 1014 Two effects, related to illegal arbitrage (‘buttlegging’), may generate a relationship between tax rates and the average price net of taxes. 1996 J. F. Zimmerman Interstate Relations ix. 167 The buttlegging problem could be solved if states levied a uniform cigarette excise tax. 2018 N.Y. Post (Nexis) 2 Jan. 22 Since 2006, ‘buttlegging’ here has climbed 60 percent...Illegal cigs today actually outnumber legal ones. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1962 |
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