[
US
/ˈbutˌɫɛɡ/
]
[ UK /bˈuːtlɛɡ/ ]
[ UK /bˈuːtlɛɡ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
distributed or sold illicitly
the black economy pays no taxes
NOUN
- the part of a boot above the instep
- whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash
VERB
-
sell illicit products such as drugs or alcohol
They were bootlegging whiskey -
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