Suppliers of illegal recordings

Usage examples of bootleggers.

Some expensive bootleggers carried unexpurgated copies, but possession was a ticket to rehabilitation at places like Lucifernia.

So the bootleggers get one of their peons to get rid of the rest of it.

According to local rumors, at one time or another it had served as a meeting place for bootleggers, the rendezvous point for an affluent businessman and his mistress, and the hottest spot on Friday and Saturday nights to find a high-stakes card game.

Land developers always got the red-carpet treatment, but occasionally so did gangsters, gamblers, bootleggers, bank swindlers and cocaine smugglers.

Frank Speed, an associate of a gang shaking down local bootleggers and independent blind pig operators.

Zussman acted as an agent for several prominent bootleggers during Prohibition, placing their liquor in underworld resorts.

Officer Whisman was shaking down blind pig operators and bootleggers on his beat.

Bitterness grew until a group of bootleggers actually complained to police about Whisman.

The old time bootleggers and rumrunners had gone into legitimate businesses or gotten into other rackets.

Some mechanism in my sub-consciousness took the dominant characteristics of various prize-fighters, gunmen, bootleggers, oil field bullies, gamblers, and honest workmen I had come in contact with, and combining them all, produced the amalgamation I call Conan the Cimmerian.