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boot⋅leg

  [boot-leg] noun, verb, -legged, -leg⋅ging, adjective
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–noun
1. alcoholic liquor unlawfully made, sold, or transported, without registration or payment of taxes.
2. the part of a boot that covers the leg.
3. something, as a recording, made, reproduced, or sold illegally or without authorization: a flurry of bootlegs to cash in on the rock star's death.
–verb (used with object)
4. to deal in (liquor or other goods) unlawfully.
–verb (used without object)
5. to make, transport, or sell something, esp. liquor, illegally or without registration or payment of taxes.
–adjective
6. made, sold, or transported unlawfully.
7. illegal or clandestine.
8. of or pertaining to bootlegging.
Origin:
1625–35, Americanism; boot 1 + leg; secondary senses arose from practice of hiding a liquor bottle in the leg of one's boot

Related forms:
bootlegger, noun
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boot·leg   (bōōt'lěg')   
v.   boot·legged, boot·leg·ging, boot·legs

v.   tr.

  1. To make, sell, or transport (alcoholic liquor) for sale illegally.

  2. To produce, distribute, or sell without permission or illegally: a clandestine outfit that bootlegs compact discs and tapes.

v.   intr.

  1. To engage in the bootlegging of alcoholic liquor or another product.

  2. To attach a transmitter to a dish antenna, creating an uplink via which a signal is sent to a satellite without the knowledge of the satellite's owner.

  3. Football To fake a hand-off, conceal the ball on the hip, and roll out in order to pass or especially to rush around the end. Used of a quarterback.

n.  

  1. A product, especially alcoholic liquor, that is illicitly produced, distributed, or sold.

  2. The part of a boot above the instep.

  3. Football A play in which the quarterback bootlegs.

adj.  Produced, sold, or transported illegally: bootleg gin; bootleg tapes.

[From a smuggler's practice of carrying liquor in the legs of boots.]
boot'leg'ger n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
bootleg

  1. mod.
    unauthorized or illegal [copy or something]; illegally obtained. (See also buttlegging.) : He crossed the state line to buy cigarettes and then returned by a back road with his bootleg smokes.
  2. n.
    to sell unauthorized or illegal copies; to sell contraband. : They arrested the guy for bootlegging current movies on DVDs.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

bootleg 
1889 (adj.), 1903 (v.), Amer.Eng. slang, from the trick of concealing something down the leg of a high boot (originally a flask of liquor).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Legal Dictionary

Main Entry: boot·leg
Function: noun
: something bootlegged —bootleg adjective

Main Entry: bootleg
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: boot·legged; boot·leg·ging
transitive verb 1 : to produce, reproduce, or distribute without authorization or license
2 : SMUGGLE —compare PIRATE intransitive verb : to engage in bootlegging —boot·leg·ger noun
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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