buttlegging

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• buttlegging — (BUT.leg.ing) n. Smuggling cigarettes. buttlegger n. A person who smuggles cigarettes. Example Citation: Not every New Jersey smoker plans to cough up an extra 50 cents per pack if Gov. James E. McGreevey s plan to raise the cigarette tax is… …   New words

• buttlegging — [“batlegirj] n. the transportation of untaxed or undertaxed cigarettes across a state line. (Patterned on bootlegging.) □ There’s another news story about buttlegging in northern Indiana tonight. □ Most of the guys at the plant do buttlegging on… …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

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• bitlegging — pp. The illegal copying of software and digital music. Example Citation: Bitlegging (v): Downloading copyright protected digital music files from the net. As illegal as bootlegging, but the sound quality is better. Tech talk, Management Today,… …   New words

• butt bus — n. A bus parked near a pub or restaurant that is used as the establishment s smoking section. Example Citations: It s happy hour at T. B. s Pub, but the place is almost empty. The real party is happening just steps away on a smoke filled red… …   New words

• exfiltration — (eks.fil.TRAY.shun) n. 1. The surreptitious movement of personnel out of an enemy s territory. 2. The theft and/or smuggling of goods out of an enemy s territory. Example Citation: • The MH 53J s mission is to perform low level, long range,… …   New words

• pack-year — n. A measure of cigarette consumption equivalent to smoking one pack a day for a year. Also: pack year. Example Citations: This study analyzed data on 56,042 women who averaged about 37 years old and were free of breast cancer. Nearly half of the …   New words

• smoke-easy — (SMOHK.ee.zee) n. A place where cigarettes are smoked illegally; a private smoking club. Also: smoke easy, smokeasy. Example Citation: Some City Council members want to exempt [from a proposed anti smoking law] all stand alone bars that don t… …   New words

• snakehead — (SNAYK.hed) n. A smuggler, particularly one from China, who specializes in getting people into another country without going through normal immigration channels. Example Citation: They are believed to be on their way via a circuitous underground… …   New words