From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishbootlegboot‧leg1 /ˈbuːtleɡ/ adjective [only before noun] 1 SCLbootleg alcohol, software, or recordings are made and sold illegally bootleg tapes2 American English bootleg jeans, trousers etc become wider at the end of each leg SYN bootcut British English
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bootleg• Later the Colonel bought me a bottle of bootleg liquor from some gypsies.• Later they bring the old man a gift, boxes of bootleg liquor.• And bootleg sales were never substantial enough to hurt the regular sales of an artist, he says.• Police seized 30,000 bootleg tapes in a raid last night in Brooklyn.bootlegbootleg2 noun [countable] SCLAPMan illegal recording of a music performanceExamples from the Corpus
bootleg• But we all make concessions to age and physical erosion, so Young remained fully clothed on his naked bootleg.bootlegbootleg3 verb (bootlegged, bootlegging) [intransitive, transitive] SCLDFDto illegally make or sell alcohol, or to illegally make or sell copies of software or recordings —bootlegger noun [countable] —bootlegging noun [uncountable]→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpus
bootleg• Psion's approach is to turn out software as cheaply as possible, making it uneconomical to bootleg copies.From Longman Business Dictionarybootlegboot‧leg /ˈbuːtleg/ adjective [only before a noun] made or sold illegally900 bootleg videos of pop concerts have been seized by trading standards officers.bootleg whisky 