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One gang is engaged in a violent conflict with another gang because of competing interests in making profits from selling illegal alcoholic beverages. What do you call that?

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There were bootleg wars during the Prohibition in the US.

Which modifier should I choose 'bootleg/bootlegging/bootlegger wars'?

Google gives hardly any search results for all of them. What else then?

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There's no problem in using bootleg wars. Vannie Higgins was a mobster and a prominent bootlegger.

The page on Wikipedia has the whole section under the title -

Manhattan bootleg wars

Another possibility is bootleggers wars, but you may need an apostrophe

"bootleggers' wars"

A google book says:

St Louis was wide open to the bootleggers' wars

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  • What about the other two?
    – Sergey Zolotarev
    Commented Nov 29, 2019 at 7:51
  • I already said about it - the one with an apostrophe. And, bootlegging wars is also fine. Chicago's bootlegging wars is quite known.
    – Maulik V
    Commented Nov 29, 2019 at 8:17
  • What about 'bootlegger wars'? Is it wrong?
    – Sergey Zolotarev
    Commented Nov 29, 2019 at 9:12

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