blacketeern.
/ˌblakᵻˈtɪə/, U.S. /ˌblækəˈtɪ(ə)r/ colloquial.
A trader in black-market goods; = black marketeer n.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > trader > [noun] > black marketeer or boot-legger
bootlegger1889
blind-pigger1894
legger1926
black marketeer1941
blacketeer1942
black marketer1942
1942 Time 9 Mar. 29/1 The British people..favor outright imprisonment of guilty ‘blacketeers’.
1952 J. Lait & L. Mortimer U.S.A. Confidential ii. xxiv. 290 OPS regulations, as it chanced, turned distribution of the nation's beef over to Italian blacketeers.
1998 Newcastle (Austral.) Herald (Nexis) 8 Aug. (Saturday Mag.) 12 The Prices Commission refused to increase its staff to combat the problem, claiming it was under control and that they knew ‘all the tricks of the blacketeers’.
Derivatives
blackeˈteering n. [after racketeering n.] the action or an act of dealing in the black market.
ΚΠ
1943 Amer. Notes & Queries July 54/2 Another wartime newcomer is ‘black marketeer’;..its punster counterpart, ‘blacketeering’, is as yet of unassigned origin.
1944 Daily Express 6 Dec. 4/3 Alleged blacketeering by Paris ‘Gestapo’.
1993 MTI Econews (Budapest) (Nexis) 2 Nov. Due to such blacketeering, one major Hungarian pharmaceutical company..lost USD 2.5 million last year in possible income.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
<
n.1942