what does scofflaw mean?

Question

parking ticket

Answer 1

It´s a person who knows she/he is in violation of the law but doesn't really care, like one of my uncles that had the police knock on his door when he had a big bundle of unpaid parking tickets.

Answer 2

A person who flouts a law, especially an unsustainable one.

"A contest was held in Boston in 1923, during the Prohibition era, to find a descriptive word for “a lawless drinker of illegally made or illegally obtained liquor”. A prize of $200 was offered by Delcevare King of Quincy, a rich Prohibitionist, to find such a word in order to “stab awake the conscience” of those who drank alcohol.

Since $200 was a sum not to be sneezed at, more than 25,000 entries were received from all over America and beyond. The winner was announced on 15 January 1924; as scofflaw had been sent in by two contestants, the prize was divided equally between Mr Henry Irving Dale and Miss Kate L Butler.

H L Mencken mentioned the competition in his work The American Language, and commented that “The word came into immediate currency, and survived until the collapse of Prohibition”. As any modern dictionary will relate, it has survived rather longer than that, though these days it often refers to persistent offenders against parking laws and other minor regulations."

Answer 3

scofflaw, noun.
(U.S. Informal.) a person with little regard for the law; person who regularly flouts the law.
Ex. One of the twins was named the city's champion scofflaw, with eighty-six traffic and parking violations dating from 1947 (New York Times).

Answer 4

1. a person who flouts the law, esp. one who fails to pay fines owed.
2.a person who flouts rules, conventions, or accepted practices.

Answer 5

Someone who scoffs at the law...derides it and thinks it does not apply to them...you know, like Republicans...