What is "bootlegger"

Usage examples of "bootlegger".

West India pirates was at New Providence Island in the Bahama Islands, occupied to-day by the flourishing town of Nassau, now the headquarters of those worthy descendants of the pirates, the bootleggers, who from the old port carry on their exciting and profitable smuggling of whisky into the United States.

Bronfinans, who began as bartenders and bootleggers, have made a fantastic fortune and they seem to buy new companies almost every day.

Lipa meets on the road are probably bootleggers but Lipa sees them otherwise in the moonlight.

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.

I knew that being a bootlegger would put me in the closest touch with what was going on in the underworld would give me the opportunity I wanted to learn facts about the Governor of this State!

Apparently, the bootlegger had sold most of his wares and was ready to head back to his boat, a cabin cruiser anchored a few miles offshore.

Finally, after a few yanks on the starter cord, the engine caught and the bootlegger was on his way.

Like Jimmy Zizmo the bootlegger, he was heading for the lawless, liberal hideaway to the north!

Canadian bootlegger called Melvin Brassman was wont to bring his cargoes of hooch.

A small-time Detroit bootlegger named Frank Chock signed an affidavit swearing that Buckley had set him up in the bootlegging business.