2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage 2010, p. 235:
the present owners couldn't afford the electric bills anymore, several amateur gaffers, sad to say, having already been fulminated trying to bootleg power in off the municipal lines.
1977, (w), A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 193:
On 19 February a jubilant Bigeard announced that his 3rd R.P.C. had seized eighty-seven bombs, seventy kilos of explosive, 5,120 fulminate of mercury detonators, 309 electric detonators, etc.