bootleg liquor
Prohibition-era hooch
Bootleg liquor is alcohol that has been illegally produced, transported, or sold—especially during Prohibition in the United States (1920–1933), when the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages was banned.
The term bootleg derives from the practice of concealing contraband in boot tops.
Bootleg liquor was often of questionable quality, sometimes dangerously so, as illicit distillers cut corners or used toxic ingredients.
His grandfather used to run bootleg liquor across county lines.
- mashCrushed soft mixture
- moonshineIllegally distilled spirits
- stillUnmoving, or continuing
- ProhibitionConstitutional alcohol ban era
- bathtub ginAmateur-made illegal liquor
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- contrabandheroin, cocaine, narcotics, illegal drugs, illicit drugs
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- liquor lawsDUI, legal age, public intoxication, alcohol ban, open container
- speakeasysecret bar, hidden door, password, bathtub gin, Prohibition