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bootleg

[ boot-leg ]

noun

  1. alcoholic liquor unlawfully made, sold, or transported, without registration or payment of taxes.
  2. the part of a boot that covers the leg.
  3. 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)

bootlegged, bootlegging.
  1. to deal in (liquor or other goods) unlawfully.

verb (used without object)

bootlegged, bootlegging.
  1. to make, transport, or sell something, especially liquor, illegally or without registration or payment of taxes.

adjective

  1. made, sold, or transported unlawfully.
  2. illegal or clandestine.
  3. of or relating to bootlegging.

bootleg

/ 藞产耻藧迟藢濒蓻伞 /

verb

  1. to make, carry, or sell (illicit goods, esp alcohol)
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. something made or sold illicitly, such as alcohol during Prohibition in the US
  2. an illegally made copy of a CD, tape, etc
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. produced, distributed, or sold illicitly

    bootleg whisky

    bootleg tapes

鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 藞产辞辞迟藢濒别驳驳别谤, noun
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 产辞辞迟路濒别驳路驳别谤 noun
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of bootleg1

An Americanism first recorded in 1625鈥35; boot 1 + leg; secondary senses arose from practice of hiding a liquor bottle in the leg of one's boot
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of bootleg1

C17: see boot 1, leg ; from the practice of smugglers of carrying bottles of liquor concealed in their boots
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Films that were once surreptitiously passed around via bootleg videos are getting their first theatrical run in the country.

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Their drinks are thought to have contained methanol - a deadly substance often found in bootleg alcohol.

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But the bootleg 鈥淏ulls鈥 shirt reads 鈥淏alls鈥 instead.

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When Slim is reluctant to skip his steady gig for these sharks, Stack almost magically gifts him a bootlegged Irish beer from Chicago.

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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.

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