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bootleg
[ boot-leg ]
noun
- alcoholic liquor unlawfully made, sold, or transported, without registration or payment of taxes.
- the part of a boot that covers the leg.
- something, as a recording, made, reproduced, or sold illegally or without authorization:
a flurry of bootlegs to cash in on the rock star's death.
verb (used with object)
- to deal in (liquor or other goods) unlawfully.
verb (used without object)
- to make, transport, or sell something, especially liquor, illegally or without registration or payment of taxes.
adjective
- made, sold, or transported unlawfully.
- illegal or clandestine.
- of or relating to bootlegging.
bootleg
/ ˈ²ú³Ü˳ÙËŒ±ôɛɡ /
verb
- to make, carry, or sell (illicit goods, esp alcohol)
noun
- something made or sold illicitly, such as alcohol during Prohibition in the US
- an illegally made copy of a CD, tape, etc
adjective
- produced, distributed, or sold illicitly
bootleg whisky
bootleg tapes
Derived Forms
- ˈ²ú´Ç´Ç³ÙËŒ±ô±ð²µ²µ±ð°ù, noun
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ²ú´Ç´Ç³Ù·±ô±ð²µÂ·²µ±ð°ù noun
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of bootleg1
Example Sentences
Many of the tracks, including Fugitive's Dream and Don't Back Down on Our Love, have circulated on bootlegs for years, but will finally be heard in studio quality.
Over the next two centuries, the family’s land holdings are augmented by bootlegging, cigarette trafficking and other felonies.
In 1920s Anaheim, the big local issue was bootlegging and Catholics, who were seen as foreigners in what was supposed to be an Anglo-Saxon Protestant country.
The Dalit community in particular relied on the alcohol trade before the ban, and the lack of opportunities in one of India’s poorest states has left many resorting to bootlegging.
I grew up wearing bootleg clothes, fake sneakers, Goodwill or thrifted stuff.
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