bootlegging
During the Prohibition era in the 1920s, alcohol was often smuggled into parties through various means such as hidden compartments in vehicles, false-bottom suitcases, and even underground tunnels. Bootleggers and speakeasies played a significant role in the illegal distribution of alcohol during this time.
Illegal alcohol was known as 'sly-grog'.
It is called bootlegging
BootLeggers as well as millions of ordinary citizens.
People made their own liquors and smuggled them around in boots (hence the term bootlegger) and also drove in fast cars that can carry lots of this alcohol to different places while avoiding the police (this was the roots of NASCAR) and people went into hidden illegal bars called speakeasies. Nowadays, speakeasies, bars, and alcohol were no longer illegal, but the trend still continues that the owners try to keep them hidden to a certain degree.
they were called saloons back then!
In the USA it was called Prohibition.
During Prohibition in the United States, people who sold illegal alcohol were often referred to as bootleggers.
Alcohol in the United States was illegal during the 1920s; this time was called the prohibition.
During prohibition, a places that sold alcohol illegally was called a speakeasy.
There are various terms that could be used to describe goods that have been smuggled. For example, it could be called contraband.
Alcohol was illegal during a period called prohibition. It went from the 1920s to the early 1930s. Many American farmers made a good living making moonshine (illegal alcohol) during that period.