bootlegging

About 0.14 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Engaging in economic production or distribution in an illegal way.
2. noun The activity of making, transporting and/or selling illegal alcoholic liquor.
3. noun The activity of making, transporting and/or selling an illegal version or copy of a copyrighted product.
4. noun The activity of operating a mine illicitly.
5. verb present participle and gerund of bootleg

Similar words

pirating bootlegger smuggling contraband black market drug trafficking piracy trafficking illicitly stealing

Often followed by

and of business in was operation operations is activities

Word family

bootleg bootlegged bootlegs