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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bootleg
I.adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Police seized 30,000 bootleg tapes in a raid last night in Brooklyn.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And bootleg sales were never substantial enough to hurt the regular sales of an artist, he says.
▪ Later the Colonel bought me a bottle of bootleg liquor from some gypsies.
▪ Later they bring the old man a gift, boxes of bootleg liquor.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But we all make concessions to age and physical erosion, so Young remained fully clothed on his naked bootleg.
III.verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Psion's approach is to turn out software as cheaply as possible, making it uneconomical to bootleg copies.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
bootleg

bootleg \bootleg\ adj. distributed or sold illicitly; especially, imported illegally.

Syn: black-market, contraband, smuggled.

bootleg

bootleg \bootleg\ v.

  1. to sell illicit products such as drugs or alcohol.

    Syn: smuggle.

  2. to produce alcohol illegally.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bootleg

"leg of a boot," 1630s, from boot (n.1) + leg (n.). As an adjective in reference to illegal iquor, 1889, American English slang, from the trick of concealing a flask of liquor down the leg of a high boot. Before that the bootleg was the place to secret knives and pistols.

Wiktionary
bootleg
  1. illegally produced, transported or sold; pirated n. 1 The part of a boot that is above the instep 2 An illegally produced, transported or sold product; contraband 3 (context American football English) A play in which the quarterback fakes a handoff, conceals the ball against his hip, and roll out. v

  2. 1 (context chiefly US transitive English) to make, transport and/or sell illegal alcoholic liquor 2 (context transitive English) to make, transport and/or sell an illegal version or copy of a copyright product 3 (context intransitive English) to engage in bootlegging

WordNet
bootleg
  1. adj. distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes" [syn: black, black-market, contraband, smuggled]

  2. [also: bootlegging, bootlegged]

bootleg
  1. n. whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash [syn: moonshine, corn liquor]

  2. the part of a boot above the instep

  3. v. sell illicit products such as drugs or alcohol; "They were bootlegging whiskey"

  4. produce or distribute illegally; "bootleg tapes of the diva's singing"

  5. [also: bootlegging, bootlegged]

Wikipedia
Bootleg

Bootleg, bootlegs, bootlegger, bootleggers, bootlegged or bootlegging may refer to:

Bootleg (TV serial)

Bootleg is a 2002 miniseries for children, commissioned by the BBC and based on a book of the same name by Alex Shearer. It was shown as a three-part series in the UK, with subsequent broadcasts in Australia and all over the world.

The novel has been adapted in Japan in the form of manga and 13 episode ONA series under the title .

Bootleg (comics)

Bootleg is a fictional super heroine created by Eric Stephenson and Todd Nauck for Image Comics (under the Extreme Studios imprint) title New Men and was the second team member the two introduced to the series, after Pilot, a character who was almost identical to the X-Men's Bishop, and debuted in her civilian identity in the 9th issue of the New Men ongoing series, but did not encounter the team themselves until issue 12.

Bootleg (Larry Norman album)

Bootleg is an album created by Larry Norman, released in 1972. It was originally released as a double-LP.

Bootleg (Bad News album)

Bootleg is the second album release by UK parody heavy metal group Bad News. It is a comedy album, apparently a bootleg of outtakes from the sessions for the group's debut album Bad News. The first album features music and some arguing between the band members; this album is almost entirely arguing.

Bootleg (Eric's Trip album)

Bootleg is the second compilation album by Canadian indie band Eric's Trip. It is only available on vinyl. The album was released to coincide with the band's 2007 reunion tour.

Bootleg (Tempest album)

Bootleg is the debut album by Tempest. At the time, they did not have a fiddle player, and performed as a four-piece.

Bootleg (1985 film)

Bootleg is a 1985 Australian film starring John Flaus as a detective in Queensland.

Bootleg (Downchild Blues Band album)

Bootleg is the 1971 debut album from the Canadian blues group the Downchild Blues Band.

Having been rehearsing and playing live shows since 1969, the band proceeded to create one of Canada’s earliest independent records. Recorded over two nights in 1971 in a makeshift studio at Toronto's Rochdale College, Donnie Walsh and others distributed the album by hand. It was also welcomed by major Toronto music retailer Sam Sniderman of Sam the Record Man renown, who was very much disposed to promoting Canadian music. The record was soon acquired by RCA Records Canada for more general distribution.

Bootleg was reissued on CD on September 11, 2007, without any extra tracks and can also be streamed and purchased at the band's official website.

Usage examples of "bootleg".

Toronto for you -- and Canada, because this country is still pretty much pioneer in its deepest feelings and thinks art is something the women amuse themselves with in the long winter evenings -- you know, knitting, tatting, and barbola -- while the men drink bootleg hooch in the barn.

Network and slotted a second bootlegged microfiche into the slant-topped console.

But Bernabe understood roots and he understood the fractured culture, loving what was good in the past while refusing to romanticize it, at the same time that he admired all his stubborn neighbors who had survived on a wing and a prayer, on bootleg liquor, on a half-dozen illegal deer a year, and on a handful of overgrazed alfalfa fields.

Chase and Jenny Anderson had records before their spectacular bank-robbing spree: shoplifting, poaching, unlicensed firearms, bootlegging, forged checks.

He dealt in bootleg data and financed the manufacture of the illegally overpowered stim boxes.

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.

The eel trade, stolen cars, bootleg ciggies, building materials, anything not nailed down.

There were slots, card and crap tables, football pools galore, and bootleg lottery and offtrack racing stalls in direct competition with the State of New York.

In the evening passing through a saddle in the low hills they jumped a spikehorn buck out of a stand of juniper and Rawlins shucked the rifle backward out of the bootleg scabbard and raised and cocked it and fired.

But the cattlemen still lived by their own rules, and Sheriff Tom Langford drank bootlegged rum at the wedding party in July when Walt Langford took the hand of Miss Carrie Watson.

We need a bootleg machine, a decommissioned model with the satellite link disabled, so we can run the Yeyuka software without their knowledge.