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Bootleg   /bˈutlˌɛg/   Listen
verb
bootleg  v.  
1.
To sell illicit products such as drugs or alcohol.
Synonyms: smuggle.
2.
To produce alcohol illegally.


adjective
bootleg  adj.  Distributed or sold illicitly; especially, imported illegally.
Synonyms: black-market, contraband, smuggled.





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"Bootleg" Quotes from Famous Books



... failed him, and just as some loose hay was lighted, he called out that he would give in and threw down his pistols. In another moment he came down himself and submitted to having his hands bound behind him. Then Artie took possession of the map placed in the bootleg. ...
— An Undivided Union • Oliver Optic
... black riding habit which displays a dainty, enamelled bootleg, and wearing a gray felt hat of the rough rider type, gracefully poised on one side of her head, smiles incredulously as she stands, one hand on the knob, looking in through the door at the ...
— The Transgressors - Story of a Great Sin • Francis A. Adams
... a spell of utter depression overtook him, and within a week he was again caught down-town, wandering around in a drunken daze, with a pint of bootleg whiskey in his hip pocket. It was because of a sort of craziness in his behavior at the trial that his sentence to the guard-house was ...
— The Beautiful and Damned • F. Scott Fitzgerald


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