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[ US /ˈbutˌɫɛɡ/ ]
[ UK /bˈuːtlɛɡ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. distributed or sold illicitly
    the black economy pays no taxes
NOUN
  1. the part of a boot above the instep
  2. whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash
VERB
  1. sell illicit products such as drugs or alcohol
    They were bootlegging whiskey
  2. produce or distribute illegally
    bootleg tapes of the diva's singing

How To Use bootleg In A Sentence

  • So unless someone was helpfully bootlegging it, I don't know how you could hear the whole thing.
  • For the sake of sanity, radio shows and other broadcasts are lumped in with "bootlegs" -- the term bootleg is taken to be anything not released by the band on one of its official record companies. DISCOGRAPHY: Genesis, by Scott McMahan
  • Piracy, as in bootleg sales of CD ` s and DVD ` s. If King Kong could only speak …
  • He had the bottle of bootleg bourbon out and the glass beside it was half empty.
  • De Vos was famous around Berkeley for what he labeled his free-wheeling extra-curricular "bootleg" seminars-which he held in the little WWII vintage green bungalow across from Kroeber Hall-as well as in his gracious Berkeley Hills home. Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco : The Fox
  • the dry vote led by preachers and bootleggers
  • And finally, no group trafficked in more illicit liquor than the bootleggers.
  • It's been bootlegged quite a lot though--check out your nearest record fair.
  • These bootlegs come shrink wrapped in pretty packaging, looking almost exactly like a professional version except they cost a fraction of the price.
  • Instead, they are sentenced to a life of subordination: tilling fields, building homes, preparing food, collecting firewood, bearing children, and preparing any item -- from charcoal to litchi fruits for their unfaithful husbands to sell on roadsides -- money that will ultimately end up in the men's empty stomachs in the form of bootleg banana booze. Summer Rayne Oakes: Where the fire burns: Accounts from Mozambique
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