USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Prohibition ended the legal sale of liquor and thereby created demand for an illicit supply. The earliest bootleggers began smuggling foreign-made commercial liquor into the United States from across the Canadian and Mexican borders and along the seacoasts from ships under foreign registry.

Detailed explanation-2: -People that made alcohol and smuggled it into cities or to bars were called “bootleggers.” Some bootleggers sold homemade whiskey called “moonshine” or “bathtub gin.” Bootleggers would often have modified cars to help them outrun the federal agents trying to catch them.

Detailed explanation-3: -: a person who makes or sells alcoholic liquor illegally.

Detailed explanation-4: -Etymology. From bootleg +-er. Originally a nickname given to smugglers in King George III’s reign, derived from the smugglers’ custom of hiding packages of valuables in the legs of their large sea-boots when dodging the king’s coastguardsmen.