Crossword clues for bootlegged
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: bootleg)
WordNet
adj. distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes" [syn: black, black-market, contraband, smuggled]
[also: bootlegging, bootlegged]
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
Usage examples of "bootlegged".
Eve compensated by being surly and antagonistic with her snitch and nearly losing a lead on a case involving bootlegged chemicals.
He touted figures on violent crime, on urban decay, on bootlegged drugs, all a result, the senator claimed, of our increasing moral decline, our softness on criminals, our indulgence in sexual freedom without responsibility.
Just about everyone on campus had done some kind of deal with Max at some time, even if it was just for bootlegged software.
The camouflage of the hyper-miniaturized time-warping construct had seemed to him, when he first viewed it, the sine qua non of misleading packages: the weapon appeared to be bootlegged tin of prophoz from Yucatán, fully automated, helium-battery powered, guaranteed for five-year operation and gynetropic.
But—possibly the THL soldier, after shooting him with the LSD-tipped dart, had carted him to a Telpor station and dumped him back to the Sol System and Earth, the planetary system out of which he—grasping his time-warping construct cammed as a tin of Yucátan helium-powered bootlegged prophoz—had so recently emerged.
The word, in the end, is the only system of encoding thoughts--the only medium--that is not fungible, that refuses to dissolve in the devouring torrent of electronic media (the richer tourists at Disney World wear t-shirts printed with the names of famous designers, because designs themselves can be bootlegged easily and with impunity.
The only way to make clothing that cannot be legally bootlegged is to print copyrighted and trademarked words on it.