buttlegging en · NOUN
Etymology
Blend of butt + bootlegging.
Meanings
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(informal, uncountable) The smuggling of cigarettes.
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 […]
1977, Time, volume 110, numbers 19-26, page 84: