black marketeer

black marketeer (plural black marketeers)

1. Someone selling black market goods or trading on the black market.
   • 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, London: Secker & Warburg, Part Three, [Chapter 1],

     There was a constant come-and-go of prisoners of every description: drug peddlers, thieves, bandits, black marketeers, drunks, prostitutes.

   • 1960, Poul Anderson, Murder in Black Letter, New York: Macmillan, Chapter 18, p. 153,

     He got in on the postwar reconstruction of crime, along lines borrowed from gangland and Communism. He probably set out as a currency black marketeer, working through Switzerland.

• (Britain, dated) spiv

• black marketeering