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Recent Examples of bootleggerChildhood friends, Costello and Genovese thrived as bootleggers during Prohibition and rose to the upper ranks of the mob.—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 See All Example Sentences for bootlegger
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smuggler
Noun
In the Sahara, a smuggler, a paleoanthropologist, and a man on a rescue mission cross paths.
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Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
24 June 2025
There’s also rumored to be a tunnel in Toot’s basement that smugglers used during Prohibition to get resupplies from the waterfront.
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