Rum-running
Illegal business of smuggling alcoholic beverages / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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See also: Moonshine and Wine fraud
"Rum Runner" redirects here. For other uses, see Rum Runner (disambiguation).
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.
Smuggling usually takes place to circumvent taxation or prohibition laws within a particular jurisdiction.