EGAVE

bootleg

About 0.17 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To engage in bootlegging. To make, transport and/or sell illegal alcoholic liquor.
    In the 1930s, Grandpa used to bootleg to make ends meet.
  2. verb To make, transport and/or sell illegal alcoholic liquor.
    In the 1930s, Grandpa used to bootleg to make ends meet.
  3. verb To make, transport and/or sell an illegal version or copy of a copyrighted product.
    In the 1990s, Grandpa used to bootleg under some sort of Robin-Hood-esque notion.
  4. verb To operate a mine illicitly.
    In the 1930s, Grandpa used to bootleg to make ends meet.
  5. noun The part of a boot that is above the instep.
  6. noun An illegally produced, transported, or sold product.
    He thinks he can cross this border with bootleg and get away with it. I doubt he's right. Maybe years ago, but not nowadays.
  7. noun An unauthorized recording; for example, of a live concert.
    Years ago I heard a fantastic bootleg of that song. It was my favorite rendition.
  8. noun A remix or mashup that is a combination of two songs but that is not authorized and audited for copyright use; primarily in the electronic music scene.

Similar words

contraband black-market smuggle illegal black smuggled surreptitious clandestine underground irregular

Often followed by

liquor whiskey series booze copies gin whisky recordings cd

Word family

bootlegged bootlegging bootlegs

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