bootlegger

[ boot-leg-er ]

noun

1. a person who makes or sells liquor or other goods illegally:

   A bootlegger named George Cassiday secretly supplied members of Congress with liquor during Prohibition.

   The sort of criminals of interest to the piracy commission are large-scale DVD bootleggers, not individual downloaders.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bootlegger¹

bootleg ( def ) + -er ¹

Example Sentences

The National Football League's New York Giants franchise was founded in 1925 by a bootlegger named Tim Mara.

From The Daily Beast

He seeks to clear up some myths about Kennedy—he was, for instance, never a bootlegger—and offer a truthful portrait of the man.

From The Daily Beast

To prep for his role as a gun-slinging bootlegger in the film, LaBeouf packed on 40 pounds and guzzled moonshine.

From The Daily Beast

There he insinuates himself with the locals as the new bootlegger and begins stalking Luce and her two charges.

From The Daily Beast

Indeed, one could claim that her vast business empire has been built on the memories of her days as a fancified bootlegger.

From The Daily Beast

Mr. Rosen was by way of being—by a roundabout way of being—what technically is known as a bootlegger.

From Project Gutenberg

According to the estimate of the narrator, a bootlegger passes through Malone every eight minutes.

From Project Gutenberg

The blow of her stick had half blinded the bootlegger's one eye, but he was coming toward her.

From Project Gutenberg

I imagine, of course, as I said to Mr. Hampton here earlier, that our bootlegger friends set the fire.

From Project Gutenberg

Soon he saw that he was flying faster than the bootlegger ahead of him.

From Project Gutenberg