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The act of selling illegally or without permission
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bootlegging
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also boot-legging , 1890, from bootleg (q.v.).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in 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 ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes" [syn: black , black-market , contraband , smuggled ] [also: bootlegging , bootlegged ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of bootleg English)
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.