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foodleggers

foodleggers is the plural of foodlegger.

Meaning of foodlegger

Noun

foodlegger (plural foodleggers)

  1. An illicit foodseller, especially in a jurisdiction where food is subject to rationing.
    • Foodleggers. One sinister development that aggravated the food situation was the rise in wartime Britain of a new kind of criminal: the food racketeer. Like gangsters who terrorized the U.S. under Prohibition, foodleggers have highjacked trucks ...1941, Time

Questions about foodleggers

What is foodleggers the plural of?
Foodleggers is the plural of foodlegger.

Words near foodleggers in the dictionary

  1. foodistas
  2. foodists
  3. foodland
  4. foodlands
  5. foodlegger
  6. foodleggers
  7. foodless
  8. foodlessly
  9. foodlessness
  10. foodlike
  11. foodloaf

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