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bootlegging

[ UK /bˈuːtlɛɡɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈbutˌɫɛɡɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the act of selling illegally or without permission
    the bootlegging of videotapes is common in Asia
  2. the act of making or transporting alcoholic liquor for sale illegally
    the Prohibition amendment made bootlegging profitable

How To Use bootlegging In A Sentence

  • So unless someone was helpfully bootlegging it, I don't know how you could hear the whole thing.
  • As Prohibition began, new bootlegging operations opened up and drew in immense wealth. Five People Born on January 17 | myFiveBest
  • 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?
  • 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
  • National prohibition provided lucrative illegal markets, which some Italian Americans successfully exploited through bootlegging operations.
  • 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 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.
  • My first real business was bootlegging T-shirts.
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