USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Definitions of bootlegger. someone who makes or sells illegal goods, especially illegal liquor. synonyms: moonshiner. type of: criminal, crook, felon, malefactor, outlaw. someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime.

Detailed explanation-2: -: a person who makes or sells alcoholic liquor illegally. … in sleepy little St-Hilaire, once a Prohibition boom town, from which bootleggers smuggled truckloads of whisky into the U.S. …

Detailed explanation-3: -In U.S. history, bootlegging was the illegal manufacture, transport, distribution, or sale of alcoholic beverages during the Prohibition period (1920–33), when those activities were forbidden under the Eighteenth Amendment (1919) to the U.S. Constitution.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -It originally meant the part of a boot that covers the top part of your calf. The “bootleg” came into use around the 1880s, when men used literally to conceal a liquor flask in the top part of the boot (before and since, the bootleg was the place to secret knives and pistols).