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Recent Examples of bootlegger
Ranch hands and migrant farmers arrived in the eighteen-hundreds, followed by bootleggers, bartenders, drug runners, and pimps.
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Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
However, when a bootlegger is seen as simply trying to ride others’ success in a self-serving manner, community support quickly wanes, and job opportunities for the bootlegger can even dry out.
—London School Of Economics, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
Or Telfar’s reimagining of Canal Street bootleggers as craftspeople, just as important as their Italian counterparts.
—Jeremy O. Harris, Vogue, 16 Apr. 2025
His death reportedly was the result of a dispute with a bootlegger.
—Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 21 Mar. 2025
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Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
However, when a bootlegger is seen as simply trying to ride others’ success in a self-serving manner, community support quickly wanes, and job opportunities for the bootlegger can even dry out.
—London School Of Economics, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
Or Telfar’s reimagining of Canal Street bootleggers as craftspeople, just as important as their Italian counterparts.
—Jeremy O. Harris, Vogue, 16 Apr. 2025
His death reportedly was the result of a dispute with a bootlegger.
—Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 21 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bootlegger
smuggler
Noun
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Nicolas Niarchos, checking a piece by Ben Taub, called up one of the most powerful smugglers in the Sahel, who cheerfully confirmed every detail, including his trafficking of humans.—
Zach Helfand,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
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The island chain is along routes that smugglers use to import cocaine, marijuana and other narcotics into the United States.—
David Goodhue,
Miami Herald,
22 Aug. 2025
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“Bootlegger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bootlegger. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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