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Definition of Bootlegger
1. Noun. Someone who makes or sells illegal liquor.
Generic synonyms: Criminal, Crook, Felon, Malefactor, Outlaw
Derivative terms: Bootleg, Moonshine
Definition of Bootlegger
1. Noun. An illegal trader of goods, especially of alcohol. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bootlegger
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bootlegger
Literary usage of Bootlegger
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Trial of Sir John Falstaff: Wherein the Fat Knight is Permitted to by Asa Maxon Fritz Randolph (1893)
"Bardolph as a bootlegger.—An Emergency in the Fat Knight's Life.—Water-Ordeal in
the Thames, as a Cure for Concupiscence.—Some Sack, Francis. ..."
2. Publication of the American Sociological Society by American Sociological Association (1918)
"bootlegger Agel was identified 83 times as bootlegger, no doubt because of his
outdoor costume and the pose with the turned up collar and the cigar. ..."
3. When a State Goes Dry: A Brief Study in Law Enforcement by Frederick Omar Blue (1916)
"Yet it must be kept in mind that such prosecutions are not the "all in all" work
to be done. The larger work is to close the way by which the bootlegger and ..."
4. The Canadian Law Times by Judicial Committee, Great Britain, Privy Council (1919)
"To-day the customer knows where and the bootlegger knows how. ... By this time
the bootlegger and his pursuer know each other fairly well by sight. ..."
5. Liquor Prohibition by Archibald Douglas Dabney (1920)
"... intoxicating liquors with intent to dispose of same, in violation of law,
shall be termed a "bootlegger," and that every bootlegger may be restrained by ..."
6. Acts and Resolutions Passed at the ... Session of the General Assembly of by Iowa (1904)
""bootlegger" defined. Any person who shall, by himself, or his employe, ...
Every such bootlegger may be restrained by injunction from doing or continuing ..."
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