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UK
/bˈuːtlɛɡɪŋ/
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[ 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
- 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.