rum-running
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thumb|upright=1.35|Indonesian National Police|Police use a [[road roller to destroy bottles of illegal alcohol confiscated in Serpong, out of Jakarta, Indonesia on April 13, 2018.]]
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- Alcohol smuggling today
- Etymology
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- The Rum Row
- The ships
- Rum-running in Northern Europe in the 1920s and 1930s
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thumb|upright=1.35|Indonesian National Police|Police use a [[road roller to destroy bottles of illegal alcohol confiscated in Serpong, out of Jakarta, Indonesia on April 13, 2018.]]
Rum-running, or bootlegging, is the illegal business of smuggling alcoholic beverages where such transportation is forbidden by law. The term rum-running is more commonly applied to smuggling over water; bootlegging is applied to smuggling over land.
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