buttlegging
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Blend of butt + bootlegging
Noun
[edit]buttlegging (uncountable)
- (informal) The smuggling of cigarettes.
- 1977, Time, volume 110, numbers 19-26, page 84:
- Massachusetts Democrat Edward Kennedy, who conducted Senate buttlegging hearings last month, says that the Mob's infiltration has led to "increasing violent crime: extortion and bribery, truck hijackings, armed robberies, serious assaults […]