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
Riley wore a pair of black bootleg pants and a red halter-neck top with black boots.
Tyler came bearing a tray of bootleg whiskey and gin and poured them drinks in squat glass tumblers stained with unwashed fingerprints.
As Prohibition began, new bootlegging operations opened up and drew in immense wealth. Five People Born on January 17 | myFiveBest
If you see a couple of mic stands being attended by some dude with a rock shirt, that show is probably being bootlegged.
Bootlegging helped enrich a fellow named Joseph Kennedy, creating one of America's great political dynasties.
Who would have the resources to invest in 'bootlegging' an Open Source application? Open Source, Closed Market?
I obtained my own first copies of Mojica's films on bootleg videocassette, which is how all first generation American fans saw them: in poor quality and in Portuguese, a language we did not read or speak, which made them all the more dreamlike and exciting --like the discovery of something long forbidden. Zé do Caixao: The Nightmare That Must Survive
Instead of real life's morlock tobacco bootleggers and DVD touts, Pantoland has sweet Aladdie, a boy so poor he does not have a name.
He had the bottle of bootleg bourbon out and the glass beside it was half empty.
I honestly thought it must be some kind of bootleg recording of one of the acoustic shows I did back in the late eighties.
In a way I look at the fact it was bootlegged as a compliment.
Alcohol was banned, yet many drank bootleg vodka.
That they have bootlegs is not news; anyone could see that they've had them for years. - Boing Boing
Was it a set-up by powerful but corrupt Saudis who felt the bootleggers had undercut their market or ripped them off over bribes or a share of the profits?
The Elk's for the middle class, and we have the bootleg joints for the workers. ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
A service station worker in Georgia, he began racing against local bootleggers across fields, on ragged dirt tracks, and on asphalt speedways.
Markko, Langston, Starr and Cole are "oohing" and "ahhhing" over a bootleg copy of Nine. AfterElton.com - Because visibility matters
Eric creates "bootlegs", which is another way of saying he creates copies of famous paintings. March 2007
It appears on one of the thousands of illegal recordings of the world's most bootlegged artist. The Sun
The band and the label tend to deal with bootleg shirts on a case by case basis, acknowledging the vast difference between kids screening shirts for friends and professional printing studios screening shirts for profit. Pitchfork: Latest News
Ross and Herd cited two reasons for not going into a direct partnership with the Bronfmans: one they summarized as “race,” and the other they characterized as “the class of business with which they were associated”—namely, bootlegging. LAST CALL
Of course, it didn't help the performances that apparently bootleg liquor flowed freely during the location shooting.
It was a rough-and-tumble business, and a Bronfman brother-in-law managing several of the warehouses was shotgunned to death by bootleggers in 1922. Fortune’s Fool
The Elk's for the middle class, and we have the bootleg joints for the workers. ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
Being a PD film, “Johnny the Giant Killer” has only been seen in crummy bootlegged dupes (most seem to come from well-worn 16mm prints). Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
Al Capone and bootleggers filled the vacuum: bathtub spirits, peepholes in the door, Joe-sent-me.
Only the little people pay taxes.; and Al Capone, mafia hitman, bootlegger and perhaps the most famous tax evader of all time, served his longest sentence, seven years, for tax evasion. Elizabeth Lynch: Ai Weiwei: Artist, Dissident and ... Tax Evader?
But many Americans, especially in the cities, rejected prohibition; speakeasies flourished and bootleg liquor flowed freely in many municipalities.
The bootleg alcohol that was produced then, often called gut-rot, tasted so vile that the bartenders learned to mix the alcohol with fruit juices to disguise the taste.
The much-reviled "bootlegger," after all, is just a businessman, albeit a businessman without an office or membership in a chamber of commerce. Nunatsiaq News - Online
bootleg tapes of the diva's singing
These tapes - amazingly by the standards of Dylan collectors - have never been bootlegged, but can be heard on the BBC documentary.
This double CD of Ian Hunter's latest tour of Britain in support of his latest official release, the critically acclaimed ‘Rant’, is a bootleg recording.
Perhaps this has to do with the imprecision of live recording, but it almost sounds like a bootleg recording.
Severin's 2.35:1 anamorphic transfer is exquisite, adding considerable lustre to a title heretofore known in this country only through dupey, unsubtitled, bootleg tapes. Archive 2006-10-01
I was going to put up a post and just backdate it to yesterday, but I decided that would be pretty bootleg.
While im sure the downloader is also uploading at the same time (bittorrent needs to upload in order to download unless youre a total leech and rig it) the whole point is that the game information your sending should be treated the same way as any bootleg (btw NOT all bittorrent files are bootleg, bittorrent is commonly used to move huge legitimate files across since its so efficient.) youre both paying, just because you consider your game to be of more importance doesnt make it so. Comcast: We Need to Play Internet Traffic Cop - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
When he wasn't hanging out with bootleggers in Wyoming roadhouses, he was going on great binges with F. Scott.
Although the county sheriff's office was just a block away, their bootleg business allegedly dwarfed their trade in seed, feed and gardening equipment.
Three cigarette commercials have been circulating in bootleg channels for years. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
Perhaps a bootlegger will make something interesting out of these insipid ditties.
They are copies, made by a bootlegger to low standards using inferior materials.
Speakeasies flourished and bootleg liquor flowed freely in many municipalities.
No way a bootleg is gong to capture the energy of that show. Last Night « PubliCola
Although collectors of real Dylan bootlegs will have been aware of this material for years, this spruced-up authorised version is another technical feat from the Columbia boffins.
But if the restrictions were removed, loud would be the angry cries of the U.S. growers of citrous fruits, of U.S. labor, U.S. bootleggers.
National prohibition provided lucrative illegal markets, which some Italian Americans successfully exploited through bootlegging operations.
Scotland's deputy chief medical officer, Dr Andrew Fraser, warned anyone drinking the bootleg vodka could be in serious danger.
Back then I had the movie as a VHS bootleg, dubbed from the widescreen laserdisc.
The official trailer isn't supposed to debut online until next Monday but already, decent quality "bootlegs" have hit the internet of the first full trailer for J.J. Abrams 'highly-anticipated relaunch of Gene Roddenberry's eternal sci-fi franchise ComingSoon.net - 30 most recent stories
I seem to recall the term bootlegger being thrown around a bunch. The Clog
For every single song downloaded legally, it is estimated that there are 40 bootlegged versions copied digitally. Times, Sunday Times
They also, evidently, spent a lot of woodshedding to bootleg Hendrix and Led Zeppelin cassettes. In concert: Tinariwen
If "The Bootleg Series" sounds familiar, it's probably because you know of the multidisc Bob Dylan albums released under that banner, in nine volumes over the last 20 years. NYT > Home Page
Described as a blueprint to crack down on the trade in fake goods, the scheme involves closer inter-agency co-operation in the fight against pirates and bootleggers.
Recently, their EP fetched over $500 on Ebay from a U.S. collector, with a German label's bootlegging of their unreleased ‘album’ only adding more fuel to the fire.
The popular conception of Prohibition is that speakeasies abounded, gangsters and bootleggers of all sorts flourished, and every American gladly flouted the law.
You see them on lots of New York City street corners: counterfeit T-shirts, bootleg DVDs, fake designer handbags.
Bootleg recordings of live shows used to be of very poor quality and had to be distributed manually.
Since there has never been an official home entertainment release, this rarely-seen work has turned up in bootleg versions. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
I bought it to if only to legitimize the bootlegs I bought previously and the only thing the official release has over the bootlegs is the clarity of picture and sound not in stereo. WKRP DVD Not OK
He was sometimes a hard man, something born perhaps of working during the Depression on what are known as bootleg pits - unlicensed coal mines where he often, with a couple of his brothers, would work eight hours with a pick and shovel, then spend eight more hours guarding piles of coal they had mined from desperate and hungry thieves. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
Most stories of Kurosawa fandom begin the same way: with a bootlegged copy of one his films from the mid to late Nineties.
They were sold from a number of different accounts and the man did not say they were bootlegged or illegal in any way.
According to the newspaper Reforma, pirated DVD copies of the film are outselling bootlegs of the recent crop of Oscar winners, an irony that does not escape Roberto Hernandez, a Mexican lawyer and co-director of the film. Mexican film on the court system is now the subject of its own trial
I personally have never seen bootleg alcohol and cigarettes sold from the back of a hatchback as reported.
The driver flips on flashing lights, plugs in a bootleg tape of an Asian girl singing Cyndi Lauper songs, and flies north out of Mogaung.
Metaphor is no mere tourist in a foreign land, it is a bootlegger.
the bootlegging of videotapes is common in Asia
Yet some of the quotes clearly aren't about that at all - they refer to music piracy, or bootlegging, or unofficial releases.
Trading standards bosses at North Yorkshire County Council say that over the past year, they have discovered a number of pubs putting bootlegged whisky, vodka and rum in popular branded bottles.
The gambler and the "bootlegger" and the white slave dealer find their habitat in large centres of population. Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police
It's also expected to cut down on the import of cheaper, bootlegged alcohol by lowering the cost of buying legally-ordered supplies.
By the way, I'm happy to announce to those lazy bastards who haven't bought seats, that if they go to the foyer or the shop next to the theater, we are putting out the official bootleg, which is me singing all the Spamalot demos, which will be out for a few weeks before the cast album is available. Chicago Reader
It’s called a bootlegger’s turn, staple of TV shows, Tennessee moonshiner’s gift to the world. Venom
My first real business was bootlegging T-shirts.
the Prohibition amendment made bootlegging profitable
Panning gold in the gulches, poaching deer and other game, rounding up wild horses and mules for the packing plant, growing vegetables, cutting firewood, and bootlegging whiskey-all were honorable occupations during such hard times.
He left quite a legacy - unwashed, hirsute fans, a bootleg archive that rivals the Library of Congress, and a tasty ice cream flavour.
The multimillion-pound black market in bootleg films and CDs is thriving because prosecutors let criminals off the hook, it was claimed last night.
I've also spoken to people whose work has been bootlegged.
Tyler came bearing a tray of bootleg whiskey and gin and poured them drinks in squat glass tumblers stained with unwashed fingerprints.
Now, we've got a house on V street, around the corner, that we suspect is being used by bootlegger's and drug stoolies as a depot for mules.
US CD/DVD bootlegging is not run by organized crime Boing Boing
Till then, Antonescu earns a modest dollar from his bootleg memory bullets.
He had the bottle of bootleg bourbon out and the glass beside it was half empty.
There is, of course, the town drunk, Otis, who acquires bootleg liquor from various moonshiners in that dry county on a regular basis and regularly celebrates the anniversary of his first drink.
With the Filumena caught up in a bootlegging scheme, the plot goes wrong and a constable is murdered, leaving her to hang.
Bootleg pants start off with a straight cut from the waist down to boot level, where the leg begins to flare out slightly.
Over 40 years, he has produced something like 40 ‘official’ albums, supplemented by a slew of live LPs and even more bootleg recordings.
The Elk's for the middle class, and we have the bootleg joints for the workers. ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
Rocker-turned-activist Geldof said he had consented to a DVD release of the 1985 concert because of the large number of bootleg recordings available.
These were the haunts of the pawn brokers and the money lenders, of wagoners and bootleg whiskey makers, of whores and pimps and opium dealers.
Even so, this new release is copied from a recently discovered and restored black-and-white print that is infinitely clearer, and better, than that bootleg copy that has been rumored to be circulating among Sondheim fans for years. 'Primrose': 44 Years Later, Still Sharp As Thumbtacks
He has sued a fan for bootlegging his concerts.
Columbia Records has also kept Dylan in the spotlight with its multidisc "Bootleg Series" releases, which feature older, unreleased live and studio recordings. Msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
Later, the islands were used as a smuggling stopover for arms in the civil war and for bootleg alcohol during Prohibition.
The bootleg culture has tuned the collective ear to genre-fusing experiments.
It's basically a copy of what's on the Italian bootleg with a bit of tweaking to even out the sound balance where they got it wrong.
The quality is unknown but when Scotland on Sunday tested bootleg DVDs last year, the results were unpromising.
The VCDs are affordable and not bootlegged by illegal manufacturers,’ he said.
For those who take their iron pumping seriously, however, these bootlegged presentations help keep a long-gone pioneer in bodybuilding media alive forever. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
We are all more or less in agreement that the last ten years or so of the bootleg cut or flared shapes tend to be more flattering than the drainpipes or baggy clown trousers nipped in at the ankle that we all sported 20 years ago.
In March, one woman died and another was left seriously ill after drinking bootleg vodka.
In Memphis, he has an experience that makes him realize that he is not as sophisticated or worldly as he thought: he meets a boy by chance on the road, and they come upon a jug of bootleg alcohol.
Pubs, clubs and people's homes were still the most common places for bootleggers to sell illicit goods.
Despite curbs on satellite TV, many get such broadcasts, as well as bootleg videotapes and smuggled publications.
But in reality, this ought to be called counterfeiting or bootlegging, and is the kind of copyright infringement that should be punished, not the use of p2p. Australian ‘pirate’ jailed fo 9 months
He made himself comfortable in his recording studio with a pipe of tobacco and the bootleg CD.
The company bootlegged the tapes for huge profits.
Toward the end, as more foreign morale data began to come back-Yank pollsters with clipboards and squeaky new shoe-pacs or galoshes visiting snow-softened liberated ruins to root out the truffles of truth created, as ancients surmised, during storm, in the instant of lightning blast-a contact in American PWD was able to bootleg copies and make them available to "The White Visitation. Gravity's Rainbow
There is, of course, the town drunk, Otis, who acquires bootleg liquor from various moonshiners in that dry county on a regular basis and regularly celebrates the anniversary of his first drink.
Miles Davis's much bootlegged performances in Poland in the 1980s were signature moments in the decline of Polish Communism, symbols of a yearned-for freedom.
Homer turns bootlegger when Springfield enforces an antiquated prohibition law.
In 2001, 29% of the pirated films seized were on DVD; so far this year 59% have been bootlegged DVDs.
Back when anime fandom in America was in its infancy, otaku (that is, fanboys - but we say that with only love) leapt at the chance to get any bootleg tapes they could from Japan.
There're moonshiners, bootleggers, methamphetamine manufacturers... they're not associated with each other. TISHOMINGO BLUES
the preachers and the bootleggers found they had a community of interests
American ideal that feels especially exhalted in a year dominated by anti-government sentiment: the bootlegger is the lone frontiersman, the rebel outlaw, the Marlboro Man. Msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
He went after bootleggers, who sent him and his family death threats, he raided a Chinese opium kingpin who was paying off Buffalo cops, cracked down on coal profiteers, prosecuted strikers who had dynamited a rail line, and even had Schwab in court on liquor violation charges. Wild Bill Donovan
BOOTLEG OPPORTUNITIES: Widely available in duped bootlegs. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
Bootleg entrepreneurs soon renamed the film and rushed it out all over the former Soviet Union.
Nouveau venu sur la scëne, Raedawn, turntablist acharnè, dèmarre trës fort avec ce mix de 80 minutes, qui confronte a peu prës tout ce que le hip-hop mondial a pu engendrer comme tendances, des plus underground aux plus mainstream, en y ajoutant une bonne louche díèlectronica warpienne, et quelques bootlegs díanthologie. WN.com - Articles related to England boss Fabio Capello: My team won't be bored or turn to booze in South Africa
The demand for illicit drugs is as strong as the nation's thirst for bootleg booze during Prohibition.
To the bootleggers, speakeasy operators, crooked druggists, fake rabbis, fallen priests, alky cookers, and various other violators dragged into court, the fines were simply fractional additions to their overhead. LAST CALL
The Advertising Standards Agency was asked to investigate the anti-piracy ads that run before the UK's movies, in which a link between terrorism and DVD bootlegging is asserted. Boing Boing: April 18, 2004 - April 24, 2004 Archives
And bootleg sales were never substantial enough to hurt the regular sales of an artist, he says.
But the Recording Industry Assn. of America and the Motion Picture Assn. of America say they sometimes need to use subterfuge as they pursue bootleggers in flea markets and on the Internet. April 9th, 2007
Good Bourbon, not the bootleg swill she used to hustle at the Eagle.
They’re total bootlegs, but his bootlegs are the only place on the planet right now to get those movies with English subs I think he bought the legit Japanese releases and then got somebody to translate them. Rica is Coming - Pinky Violence is Here!
In 1995, bootleg hipsters irrevocably changed the design of trousers.
The download free dvd decorder foe vista of these treatments is unexpectedly bootleg because the discs in runescape are swift and fresh to create. Wii-volution
It turns out he is a criminal who made his money out of bootlegging. Times, Sunday Times
After two years at college Slim was expelled for selling bootleg whiskey to other students.
They bootlegged liquor during the depression, then went legit.
He thinks it will be difficult to prove it is his voice on the bootleg, illegal version.
The demand for illicit drugs is as strong as the nation's thirst for bootleg booze during Prohibition.
The first bootleg fake books, photostat collections of Tune-Dex cards, were published in 1949.
Later, the islands were used as a smuggling stopover for arms in the civil war and for bootleg alcohol during Prohibition.
His most lucrative business was gasoline bootlegging, but his activities extended to union kickbacks, gambling, loan sharks and white-collar fraud. Times, Sunday Times
The bootlegger is the person who stands to gain from the policy. NZ On Screen
John's father, Joe Kennedy was a bootlegger during the prohibition and was also tied up with Mafia.
In the second episode of an unmissable series, the main players continue to muscle in on the bootlegging bonanza. Times, Sunday Times
They have yet to cut an album, but a group of enterprising kids have recorded their concerts and are selling bootlegged cassettes all over the district at $4 each.
Adrian and Mysterious D kicked off Bootie SF (so named because they spin 'bootlegs' to shake your 'booty' to) four years ago and have since taken their popular dance party to Los Angeles, New York and, most recently, to Paris. New York Press
The bridge is frequented by bootleggers and hawkers who are always on the look out for the carabinieri.
The bootleg alcohol that was produced then, often called gut-rot, tasted so vile that the bartenders learned to mix the alcohol with fruit juices to disguise the taste.
The bootleg booze industry in Boston wasn't affected in the least.
The publisher of the Nassau Tribune referred to the bootlegging crowd and the business they conducted as “the orgy of the Lucerne.” LAST CALL
The bootlegged whiskies and so-called gins often made people sick. Waxy.org Links
For example, before we went into Louisiana, a lot of people were bootlegging our product into Louisiana, so when we arrived there, people already knew about it.
He finally understood the excitement he had witnessed as a child when the "bootleg" seminars were being held in the family's home. Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco : The Fox
A lot of these newly rich people are just big bootleggers, you know.
He's been involved in some illegal imports, you know, guns, drugs, bootlegged Metallica T-shirts; but we haven't been able to make anything stick yet.
Rumours that a bootleg recording of him singing in the hotel bar still exists is just one of the enthralling tales which surround the famous venue.
But we all make concessions to age and physical erosion, so Young remained fully clothed on his naked bootleg.
This is so much fun, I just want to keep writing the word bootlegged -- it has lots of Os and Gs! Classic Shelly Palmer: Bootlegging Bootleggers Bootlegged - A Most Unusual Act of Piracy
Avid Bob Dylan fans treasure bootlegged recordings.
Now, you don't have to secretly record the Pearl Jam show on your own - Pearl Jam will provide their "bootlegs" for you. The Seattle Times
Gemma Jones says she enjoyed working on Bootleg ‘enormously’ describing Mrs Bubby as ‘a slightly daffy character’ and very different from her usual role.
I play a song from Ronnie Marler and Marty Keil; I talk about the Small World Podcast and play a snippet from the interview with Douglas Rushkoff; I discuss how I am a nonparticipant in all podcast groups; I play a song by Jonathan Coulton; I play a bootleg from the Butthole Surfers and move on. EGC Clambake for September 6, 2005
Me bettee you hundled dollee you gottee um jack of hearts in you bootleg, so be! Young Wild West at "Forbidden Pass" and, How Arietta Paid the Toll
Last year, the club organised its first concert, which was headlined by The Bootleg Beatles and 1,500 people danced the night away.
You see them on lots of New York City street corners: counterfeit T-shirts, bootleg DVDs, fake designer handbags.
The masterminds of the bootleg scam evaded excise duty by substituting potable alcohol with industrial solvents such as acetone.
The move is being proposed in order to clamp down on bootleg whisky, which Brown claims costs the taxpayer £600m a year in lost tax revenue.
Guns can be smuggled and they can even be "bootlegged". Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
Later I discovered he had been a bootlegger and moonshiner during prohibition and had gone to live on the mountain to flee a gang who thought he owed them money.
This is the woman who carried on drinking bootleg liquor after Prohibition was lifted because she preferred the taste.
A family doctor falsely claimed to be a war hero while secretly running a bootlegging racket trading in blackmarket cigarettes. Times, Sunday Times
And one of the guys on the x-rays, you know, so they kind of bootlegged our records. CNN Transcript Sep 13, 2003
Though not as much fun as the bootleg TOS tape that has made the rounds for decades, this is a cute segment of flubs and goofs.
Once upon a time, I saw a bootlegged video of someone on a crazy contraption called a skateboard doing jumps and spins on a thing called a half-pipe while loud music blared and flash bulbs ignited. This isn't in the Olympics, but two-man luge is?
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
Commerce Secretary Evans, in China, was complaining about bootlegged copies of American movies selling there for about $1.
When increasing price has been applied to tobacco, it has caused bootlegging and counterfeiting on a huge scale. Times, Sunday Times
Here's a story about a US Marine onboard an amphibious assualt vehicle who's making great coin bootlegging games, porn, music and movies on burnable CDs and selling 'em to his shipmates. Boing Boing: November 4, 2001 - November 10, 2001 Archives
In an effort to transcend the dodgy sound quality and high prices of bootlegs, the band has recorded every concert over the past three years.
I love mix tapes as much as the next cheapskate, but I like to get them for a fiver from my local market bootlegger.
They were bootlegging whiskey
In the late 1930s, he briefly attended Tuskegee Institute before he was expelled for bootlegging.
The film is among the most conspicuous titles in bootleg circulation, so Cher fans will have no problems tracking it down. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
Well, I'm not going to take the word of a so-called bootlegger over the word of a federal agent. The Twelfth Of August -The life story of Sheriff Buford Pusser
Its key characteristic is not cross border shopping and bootlegging but large scale fraud in which millions of cigarettes evade duty and appear on the contraband market.
A bootlegger is a man convicted, not a man merely suspected. Is Quebec A British Province?

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