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单词 buttlegging
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buttleggingn.

Brit. /ˈbʌtˌlɛɡɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈbətˌlɛɡɪŋ/
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: bootlegging n.
Etymology: Alteration of bootlegging n. after butt n.6 (compare sense 3b at that entry). Compare earlier buttlegger n.
North American colloquial (originally U.S.).
The illicit trade in cigarettes; cigarette smuggling.
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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).
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