Bootleggers
They were called 'bootleggers'.
A "Speak Easy" This was a result of the 18th Amendment (Prohibition of Liquor)
A: To carry (alcoholic liquor) on one's person illegally. B: to manufacture, sell, or transport for sale (alcoholic liquor) illegally
A: To carry (alcoholic liquor) on one's person illegally. B: to manufacture, sell, or transport for sale (alcoholic liquor) illegally
Sometimes people drink too much liquor.
alcohol.
A bootlegger.
deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor
the people who made their own liquor was called bootleggers.
bootlegging
Illicit means the same thing as illegal. Illicit alcohol is alcohol on which taxes have not been paid or that was manufactured illegally.
Prohibition. Regular bars couldn't sell liquor anymore, so people went to the "underground" speakeasies that sold liquor illegally.