Was your ancestor a bootlegger?. From LearnThat.org.
I seem to recall the term bootlegger being thrown around a bunch. From Wordnik.com. [The Clog] Reference
A bootlegger is a man convicted, not a man merely suspected. From Wordnik.com. [Is Quebec A British Province?] Reference
The bootlegger is the person who stands to gain from the policy. From Wordnik.com. [NZ On Screen] Reference
It’s called a bootlegger’s turn, staple of TV shows, Tennessee moonshiner’s gift to the world. From Wordnik.com. [Venom] Reference
I was a bootlegger from the get-go. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2003-03-01] Reference
"Well, I'm not going to take the word of a so-called bootlegger over the word of a federal agent. From Wordnik.com. [The Twelfth Of August -The life story of Sheriff Buford Pusser]
We thought maybe he was some kind of bootlegger until tonight. ". From Wordnik.com. [Hell Wings Over Manhattan]
Faulkner said, "He'd know where a bootlegger was.". From Wordnik.com. [One Sunday In Mississippi] Reference
I even knew which room servant was his bootlegger. From Wordnik.com. [The Past Through Tomorrow]
There was a bootlegger taping show, which seemed odd. From Wordnik.com. [Jonathan Richman on the Bowery] Reference
"He told me Grady was a bootlegger during Prohibition.". From Wordnik.com. [Never Come Down]
He considered himself a restaurant owner, not a bootlegger. From Wordnik.com. ['The Mysterious Montague'] Reference
JAMES PHARIS: He wasn't a bootlegger, that was a moonshiner. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with James and Nannie Pharis, 1978 December 5, 1979 January 8 and 30. Interview H-39. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By James Pharis] Reference
"My dear sir," said the bootlegger, with a pained expression. From Wordnik.com. [Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers] Reference
Q-- to those of us who haven't found ourselves a good bootlegger yet?. From Wordnik.com. [Health Care Background Briefing] Reference
So I went over and said, "Excuse me, we are looking for a bootlegger.". From Wordnik.com. [One Sunday In Mississippi] Reference
Mae's bootlegger friends and their lawyers couldn't get her off, either. From Wordnik.com. [Rachel Shteir: June in Paris] Reference
So I became a master bootlegger, finding charge numbers for my APT engineers. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
There was a lot of prejudice here but the man that he killed was a bootlegger. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Daniel Duke, August 22, 1990. Interview A-0366. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
And the rat-faced, filthy little hotel clerk turned out to be a bootlegger. From Wordnik.com. [Murder at Bridge] Reference
Achievement might come in any form: author, bootlegger, politician, songwriter. From Wordnik.com. [Reign of the Taste-Makers] Reference
The arresting constable suspected it came from a bootlegger new to the neighborhood. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
As my bootlegger great-uncle John would have said, almost anyone can build a distillery. From Wordnik.com. [Judy Dugan: Getting Biofuels to the Pump] Reference
Well, I also knew whom they worked for, the bootlegger who'd ordered my father tortured. From Wordnik.com. [Garden of Beasts]
His father, Abram, was an onion importer, a deliverer of coal, and a sometime bootlegger. From Wordnik.com. [Saul Bellow's widow on his life and letters: 'His gift was to love and be loved'] Reference
The devil had lost his hold on that bootlegger and we had no further trouble with the car. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Experiences of S O Susag]
Mr. Haskell said he recently learned his grandfather was a bootlegger in Westchester County. From Wordnik.com. [Brooklyn Whiskey Run] Reference
Note 1: bootlegger, someone who manufactures, sells, or transports alcoholic liquor illegally. From Wordnik.com. [Blind Willie McTell Lyrics] Reference
Like Jimmy Zizmo the bootlegger, he was heading for the lawless, liberal hideaway to the north!. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
The bootlegger, mobster, robber baron and burlesque queen were the new reigning cultural heroes. From Wordnik.com. [Guarding America's Future Against the Heirs of Cromwell] Reference
First came Svenson, carrying across his great shoulder the still unconscious form of the bootlegger. From Wordnik.com. [Every Man for Himself] Reference
Meanwhile the Programmer -- a onetime bootlegger named Credonia Mwerinde -- bought land and lived well. From Wordnik.com. ['The Programmer'] Reference
Note 1: bootlegger, someone who manufactures, sells, or transports alcoholic liquor illegally for sale. From Wordnik.com. [Ma Rainey Lyrics] Reference
Note 2: bootlegger, someone who manufactures, sells, or transports alcoholic liquor illegally for sale. From Wordnik.com. [Sonny Boy Williamson I (John Lee) Lyrics] Reference
To do this, they enlist the help of their wheeler-dealer friend Nadar (ph), an exuberant DVD bootlegger. From Wordnik.com. ['Persian Cats' Just Want To Rock 'N' Roll ... In Iran] Reference
Now and then a sage head tips knowingly in the direction of a flamboyant bootlegger: a crime of passion. From Wordnik.com. [Cloud Sketcher: Summary and book reviews of Cloud Sketcher by Richard Rayner.] Reference
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