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Recent Examples of bootlegger
What eliminated the bootleggers wasn’t more prohibition, but legalization, after all.
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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
In this modern fairy tale, McCullers creates the perfect love triangle: Miss Amelia the bootlegger, her ex-convict ex-husband, and the trickster Cousin Lymon.
—The Week Us, theweek, 5 Nov. 2024
Spikes in methanol poisonings are common in Iran, where ordinary alcohol can’t be sold or consumed and bootleggers often use industrial methanol to produce homemade alcoholic drinks instead.
—Bykai Kupferschmidt, science.org, 31 Oct. 2024
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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
In this modern fairy tale, McCullers creates the perfect love triangle: Miss Amelia the bootlegger, her ex-convict ex-husband, and the trickster Cousin Lymon.
—The Week Us, theweek, 5 Nov. 2024
Spikes in methanol poisonings are common in Iran, where ordinary alcohol can’t be sold or consumed and bootleggers often use industrial methanol to produce homemade alcoholic drinks instead.
—Bykai Kupferschmidt, science.org, 31 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bootlegger
smuggler
Noun
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Dog shampoo bottles are among the many creative ways smugglers have tried to sneak meth in and out of the country.—
Kaitlyn Huamani,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2025
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As Thai Customs also tightened border checks, that move led to more than 800 cannabis smugglers being caught between October 2024 and March 2025.—
Dario Sabaghi,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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“Bootlegger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bootlegger. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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