bootlegging
Unlicensed liquor trade
Bootlegging is the illegal production, distribution, or sale of goods—originally and especially liquor.
The term became prominent during Prohibition in the United States, when smugglers concealed flasks in their boot legs.
Today it extends to unauthorized recordings, pirated software, or any contraband trade: bootlegging concert footage, a bootlegging operation for knockoff handbags.
Unmoving, or continuing
- mashCrushed soft mixture
- white lightningIllicit homemade corn whiskey
- hoochIllicit liquor, slangily
- corn whiskeySpirit distilled from maize
homebrew · rotgut · poteen · backwoods · Appalachia · jug · mason jar · copper pot
Illicit liquor establishment
- rum-runningIllicit alcohol trafficking
- 18th AmendmentConstitutional liquor ban
- temperanceHabitual moderation in behavior
- bathtub ginAmateur-made illegal liquor
Al Capone · Roaring Twenties · repeal · 21st Amendment · revenuers · Eliot Ness · The Untouchables · flapper
Fraudulent imitation
- unauthorizedNot officially permitted
- unlicensedWithout official permit
- infringementViolation of rights
- knockoffUnauthorized replica product
fake · replica · copycat · pirated · rip-off · black market · DVD · streaming
Prohibited trade goods
- runnerOne who sprints
- muleEquine hybrid, often sterile
- traffickingIllegal transport for profit
- stashHidden reserve
hideaway · clandestine · border crossing · concealment · evasion · courier · hidden compartment · checkpoint
still
Unmoving, or continuing
- mashCrushed soft mixture
- white lightningIllicit homemade corn whiskey
- hoochIllicit liquor, slangily
corn whiskey · homebrew · rotgut · poteen · backwoods · Appalachia · jug · mason jar · copper pot · fermentation
speakeasy
Illicit liquor establishment
- rum-runningIllicit alcohol trafficking
- 18th AmendmentConstitutional liquor ban
- temperanceHabitual moderation in behavior
bathtub gin · Al Capone · Roaring Twenties · repeal · 21st Amendment · revenuers · Eliot Ness · The Untouchables · flapper · dry
counterfeit
Fraudulent imitation
- unauthorizedNot officially permitted
- unlicensedWithout official permit
- infringementViolation of rights
knockoff · fake · replica · copycat · pirated · rip-off · black market · DVD · streaming · torrent
contraband
Prohibited trade goods
- runnerOne who sprints
- muleEquine hybrid, often sterile
- traffickingIllegal transport for profit
stash · hideaway · clandestine · border crossing · concealment · evasion · courier · hidden compartment · checkpoint · coastline
- criminal schemesconspiracy, collusion, racketeering, kickback scheme, assassination plot
- 20th CenturyWorld War I aftermath, Cuban Missile Crisis, atomic bomb, New Deal, Nazi Germany
- crimerobbery, accomplice, alibi, burglary, conspiracy
- crimesarson, burglary, robbery, kidnapping, vandalism
- Prohibition EraProhibition, bootleggers, speakeasies, moonshiner, Al Capone
- 1920s AmericaCharles Lindbergh, Jazz Age, Spirit of St. Louis, flappers, transatlantic flight
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