Crossword clues for bootlegging
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also boot-legging, 1890, from bootleg (q.v.).
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of bootleg English)
WordNet
adj. distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes" [syn: black, black-market, contraband, smuggled]
[also: bootlegging, bootlegged]
n. the act of making of transporting alcoholic liquor for sale illegally; "the Prohibition amendment made bootlegging profitable"
the act of selling illegally or without permission; "the bootlegging of video tapes is common in the Orient"
n. whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash [syn: moonshine, corn liquor]
the part of a boot above the instep
v. sell illicit products such as drugs or alcohol; "They were bootlegging whiskey"
produce or distribute illegally; "bootleg tapes of the diva's singing"
[also: bootlegging, bootlegged]
See bootleg
Wikipedia
In economics and business administration literature, David A. Schon introduced the notion of bootlegging in 1963. Bootlegging is defined as research in which motivated individuals secretly organize the innovation process. It usually is a bottom-up, non-programmed activity, without the official permission of the responsible management, but for the benefit of the company. It is not in the department’s action plan nor are there any formal resources allocated towards it (Augsdorfer 1996).
Usage examples of "bootlegging".
Pete Astor settled back in his chair to relate the great bootlegging saga.
I fully understood what bootlegging even was, only that it was something shameful and criminal and suddenly connected to us.
I worked the El Fey with Texas Guinan, and I was doing a little bootlegging on the side, for Owney.
That, and the lurid stories that even our respectable papers were printing, because those things were indeed going on- bootlegging, wide-open gambling houses, houses of ill repute, riots in which innocent bystanders were slain, gangland slayings, all of it.
On a charge of bootlegging he could find no plausible grounds for holding them for general sessions.
He had earned a scholarship to the school of marine biology in Miami, and, beyond that, he had a trust fund that his bootlegging grandhad left him.
The major bootlegging was controlled by the Purple Gang and the Mafia.