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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>
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