THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
AMERICAN POLITICS IN THE 1920S
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Person who makes alcohol
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People who make the laws
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Person who delivers alcohol
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Person who knowingly violates the law
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Detailed explanation-1: -a person who habitually flouts or violates the law, esp one who fails to pay debts or answer summonses.
Detailed explanation-2: -scofflaw • -law • noun. : a contemptuous law violator. Examples: The governor’s office set up a database listing the names of scofflaws who hadn’t paid their traffic fines. “
Detailed explanation-3: -A criminal is someone who breaks the law.
Detailed explanation-4: -scoff + law. Coined simultaneously by Mr Henry Irving Dale and Miss Kate L. Butler for a contest held in Boston in 1923 in which a word for “a lawless drinker of illegally made or illegally obtained liquor” was sought during the Prohibition era.
Detailed explanation-5: -Words related to scofflaw convict, crook, culprit, felon, fugitive, gangster, hoodlum, hooligan, lawbreaker, mobster, offender, thug, blackmailer, delinquent, racketeer, baddie, bad guy, con, desperado, deuce.