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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'scofflaw' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions scofflaw noun  One who habitually violates minor laws or fails to answer trivial court summonses (such as parking tickets.) Etymology: Coined simultaneously by Mr Henry Irving Dale and Miss Kate L. Butler for a contest held in Boston in w:1923, 1923 in which a word for "a lawless drinker of illegally made or illegally obtained liquor" was sought during the w:Prohibition, Prohibition era.<ref>Quinion, Michael, World Wide Words, http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-sco2.htm</ref>        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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