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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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In a separate incident, two human smugglers were sentenced May 15 after a series of high-speed chases near the border.—
Brie Stimson,
FOXNews.com,
24 May 2025
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And the smugglers’ knack for evolving and evading authorities also appears unchanged.—
Aarne Heikkila,
NBC news,
17 May 2025
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“Bootlegger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bootlegger. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.
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