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BOOTLEGGER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bootlegger mean?
• BOOTLEGGER (noun)
The noun BOOTLEGGER has 1 sense:
1. someone who makes or sells illegal liquor
Familiarity information: BOOTLEGGER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who makes or sells illegal liquor
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
bootlegger; moonshiner
Hypernyms ("bootlegger" is a kind of...):
criminal; crook; felon; malefactor; outlaw (someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime)
Derivation:
bootleg (sell illicit products such as drugs or alcohol)
Context examples
I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him and I wasn't far wrong.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
"Who is this Gatsby anyhow?" demanded Tom suddenly. "Some big bootlegger?"
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
"He's a bootlegger," said the young ladies, moving somewhere between his cocktails and his flowers. "One time he killed a man who had found out that he was nephew to von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil. Reach me a rose, honey, and pour me a last drop into that there crystal glass."
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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