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Recent Examples of bootlegger
Childhood friends, Costello and Genovese thrived as bootleggers during Prohibition and rose to the upper ranks of the mob.
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2025
The Real McCoy line (named after a famous bootlegger of the 1920s) is distilled at Foursquare is more affordable and easier to find but doesn’t skimp on the quality.
—Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 7 Feb. 2025
What eliminated the bootleggers wasn’t more prohibition, but legalization, after all.
—The Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 23 Jan. 2025
This episode, in which Prohibition is reinstated in Springfield and Homer becomes a bootlegger known as the Beer Baron, pursued by an Elliot Ness-type crime fighter named Rex Banner, is one such episode.
—Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2024
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2025
The Real McCoy line (named after a famous bootlegger of the 1920s) is distilled at Foursquare is more affordable and easier to find but doesn’t skimp on the quality.
—Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 7 Feb. 2025
What eliminated the bootleggers wasn’t more prohibition, but legalization, after all.
—The Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 23 Jan. 2025
This episode, in which Prohibition is reinstated in Springfield and Homer becomes a bootlegger known as the Beer Baron, pursued by an Elliot Ness-type crime fighter named Rex Banner, is one such episode.
—Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bootlegger
smuggler
Noun
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The International Organization for Migration in a statement said the migrants were part of a group of 150 others who were forced by smugglers to disembark a boat and swim to shore on June 5.—
Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports,
Arkansas Online,
12 June 2025
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Now, though, he was led away as an international drug smuggler who had tried to bring 60 kilograms (132lb) of cannabis, with a street value of £600,000 ($815,000) into England, duping his girlfriend into being one of his couriers.—
Stuart James,
New York Times,
6 June 2025
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“Bootlegger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bootlegger. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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