Definitions for bootleg

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bootleg boot·leg

Spelling: [boot-leg]

IPA: /ˈbutˌlɛg/

Bootleg is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 134 anagrams from letters in bootleg (begloot).

Definitions for bootleg

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:

adjective

1. made, sold, or transported unlawfully.
2. illegal or clandestine.
3. of or relating to bootlegging.

verb (used with object)

1. to deal in (liquor or other goods) unlawfully.

verb (used without object)

1. to make, transport, or sell something, especially liquor, illegally or without registration or payment of taxes.

Origin of bootleg

1625-35, Americanism; boot¹ + leg; secondary senses arose from practice of hiding a liquor bottle in the leg of one's boot

Examples for bootleg

Some of them, we had no idea they existed—like the first bootleg Series that we put out a few years ago, The Personal File.

But on the other side of the glass door, bootleg magic is being made.

I'll sneak around to you in the mornin', when I go t' fetch me can of bootleg.

The “bootleg chemistry” results in a drug that is notoriously impure and often contains a lethal mix of toxins.

Neither did he appear in public with a bowie knife down his bootleg.

The patrons repaid the mob by buying cheap liquor at premium prices, along with bootleg cigarettes and sometimes drugs.

Then Artie took possession of the map placed in the bootleg.

A far more serious case involved eight former and present cops charged with smuggling guns and bootleg cigarettes.

Then it was that he slipped a card in the bootleg of Roche again.

It has been said that "a Wren will build in anything from a bootleg to a bomb-shell."