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Recent Examples of bootlegger
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.
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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
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
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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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bootlegger
smuggler
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The show’s namesake character is Cassian Andor, a pilot, played by Diego Luna, who was taken from his home planet as an orphan by sympathetic smugglers.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
21 May 2025
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That said, to be displaced is to be object, material, pushed across borders, overloaded into boats, stuffed into unfit vehicles, herded over mountains by smugglers.—
Tim Brinkhof,
JSTOR Daily,
21 May 2025
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“Bootlegger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bootlegger. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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