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 

• BOOTLEGGER (noun)

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)