The Scofflaw was said to have been invented by a bartender named “Jock” at Harry’s American Bar in Paris around 1924. The word Scofflaw is a prohibition-era term that was coined in 1923 to describe someone who drank alcohol illegally. It is said that Massachusetts prohibitionist Delcavare King who was dismayed by all the boozing going on despite the Volstead Act (The law prohibiting the sale of alcohol) decided to hold a contest offering up a 200 dollar prize to anyone who could come up with a catchy shaming term for someone who broke the law by consuming alcohol. The contest was won by a guy named Henry Irving Dale and Kate L. Butler who compounded the words Scoff meaning to mock, deride, or ridicule, and Law. If it were not for their ingenuity this cocktail may very well be called Hooch Sniper, The Barnacle, or Bottler Yegger (Yegg is a seldom-used word for Safe-Cracker)