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BOOTLEGGER definition: 1. someone who makes, copies, or sells something illegally: 2. someone who makes, copies, or sells…. Learn more.
Bootlegging is illegal traffic in liquor in violation of legislative restrictions on its manufacture, sale, or transportation. The term entered the American vocabulary when the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution effected the national prohibition of alcohol from 1920 until its repeal in 1933.
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The Oxford English Dictionary records the word-form "bootlegger" as in use from 1889 onwards. According to the 2011 PBS documentary Prohibition , the term bootlegging was popularized when thousands of city dwellers sold liquor from flasks they kept in their boot legs all across major cities and rural areas.
In U.S. history, bootlegging was the illegal manufacture, transport, distribution, or sale of alcoholic beverages during the Prohibition period, which was from 1920 to 1933. During this period these activities were forbidden under the Eighteenth Amendment (1919) to the U.S. Constitution.
Definition of bootlegger noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
