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UK
/bˈuːtlɛɡɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈbutˌɫɛɡɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈbutˌɫɛɡɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
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the act of selling illegally or without permission
the bootlegging of videotapes is common in Asia -
the act of making or transporting alcoholic liquor for sale illegally
the Prohibition amendment made bootlegging profitable
How To Use bootlegging In A Sentence
- He has sued a fan for bootlegging his concerts.
- 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.
- In the late 1930s, he briefly attended Tuskegee Institute before he was expelled for bootlegging.
- They were bootlegging whiskey
- 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
- When increasing price has been applied to tobacco, it has caused bootlegging and counterfeiting on a huge scale. Times, Sunday Times
- A family doctor falsely claimed to be a war hero while secretly running a bootlegging racket trading in blackmarket cigarettes. Times, Sunday Times
- 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.
- The publisher of the Nassau Tribune referred to the bootlegging crowd and the business they conducted as “the orgy of the Lucerne.” LAST CALL
- In the second episode of an unmissable series, the main players continue to muscle in on the bootlegging bonanza. Times, Sunday Times