Bootleg
adjective
Not officially approved or made illegally.
He sells bootleg copies of popular movies.
Often appears as...
- bootleg version
- bootleg copies
verb
To make, distribute, or sell without permission or illegally.
He got caught bootlegging popular albums.
Often appears as...
- bootleg something
- bootleg spirits
noun
Product made or sold illegally.
The police seized the bootlegs from the street vendor.
Often appears as...
- sell bootlegs
- seize bootlegs
adjective
Covering the leg up to the thigh or the knee.
She was wearing a pair of bootleg jeans.
Often appears as...
- bootleg jeans
- bootleg trousers
adjective
Not officially approved or made illegally.
He sells bootleg copies of popular movies.
Often appears as...
- bootleg version
- bootleg copies
verb
To make, distribute, or sell without permission or illegally.
He got caught bootlegging popular albums.
Often appears as...
- bootleg something
- bootleg spirits
noun
Product made or sold illegally.
The police seized the bootlegs from the street vendor.
Often appears as...
- sell bootlegs
- seize bootlegs
adjective
Covering the leg up to the thigh or the knee.
She was wearing a pair of bootleg jeans.
Often appears as...
- bootleg jeans
- bootleg trousers
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Illegitimacy Connotation
Conveys the act is disapproved by society or authorities.
Bootleg software can get you in legal trouble.
Pro Tip 2/2Entertainment Context
Often related to music and movies that are copied illegally.
Bootleg recordings from live concerts are often of poor quality.
Pro Tip 1/2Illegitimacy Connotation
Conveys the act is disapproved by society or authorities.
Bootleg software can get you in legal trouble.
Pro Tip 2/2Entertainment Context
Often related to music and movies that are copied illegally.
Bootleg recordings from live concerts are often of poor quality.
Pro Tip 1/2Illegitimacy Connotation
Conveys the act is disapproved by society or authorities.
Bootleg software can get you in legal trouble.
Pro Tip 2/2Entertainment Context
Often related to music and movies that are copied illegally.
Bootleg recordings from live concerts are often of poor quality.
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Video examples
Hauling Illegal Liquor PIPE...
the revenuers are lawming out to catch them retaliated with faster cars but the moonshiners stayed a lap ahead with devious modifications they installed switches in the dashboard to turn off the tail lights throwing off whoever was on their tail bootleggers swapped license plates to
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Compelling Models for...
bootleg coffees I don't know how she had friends in the industry but so I that's how I got my passion is like these were great character studies and amazing storytellers and tell us a little bit about what you're where you're working now what you do now so I'm very lucky
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Drunk Monkeys PIPE National...
works up yeah what else a gigantic appetite no in life there's what you know and what you don't know and what you don't know you don't know the maquettes know there's food here what they don't know is that the guy who set up this operation is making bootleg
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Drunk Monkeys PIPE National...
works up yeah what else a gigantic appetite no in life there's what you know and what you don't know and what you don't know you don't know the maquettes know there's food here what they don't know is that the guy who set up this operation is making bootleg
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Drunk Monkeys PIPE National...
what else a gigantic appetite know in life there's what you know and what you don't know and what you don't know you don't know the maquettes know there's food here what they don't know is that the guy who set up this operation is making bootleg
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Drunk Monkeys PIPE National...
they don't know is that the guy who set up this operation is making bootleg liquor by fermenting fruit and what they don't know they don't know is what happens when a relatively tiny macaque body encounters the kind of liquor that
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Making white people...
you're known for Iranian uranium enrichment now this last example is not edible if you're from a country where the stereotype is not edible you need to change the stereotype okay I wrote a show called bootleg Islam and in this
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What It Takes to Keep...
in july 2021 the bootleg fire burned over 400 000 acres in southern oregon it burned about 25 percent of our treaty rights area and burned into our aboriginal territory into mule deer winter range and other important places
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The myth of the gay...
across a bootleg copy of the official gay agenda and I said to myself LZ for so long you have been denied this when you get in front of this crowd you're gonna share the news you're gonna spread
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LZ Granderson: The myth...
But then something wonderful I was out shopping, as I tend to do, and I came across a bootleg copy of the official gay agenda. And I said to myself, "LZ, for so long, you have been denied this.
Video examples
Hauling Illegal Liquor PIPE...
the revenuers are lawming out to catch them retaliated with faster cars but the moonshiners stayed a lap ahead with devious modifications they installed switches in the dashboard to turn off the tail lights throwing off whoever was on their tail bootleggers swapped license plates to
Video examples
Compelling Models for...
bootleg coffees I don't know how she had friends in the industry but so I that's how I got my passion is like these were great character studies and amazing storytellers and tell us a little bit about what you're where you're working now what you do now so I'm very lucky
Video examples
Drunk Monkeys PIPE National...
works up yeah what else a gigantic appetite no in life there's what you know and what you don't know and what you don't know you don't know the maquettes know there's food here what they don't know is that the guy who set up this operation is making bootleg
Video examples
Drunk Monkeys PIPE National...
works up yeah what else a gigantic appetite no in life there's what you know and what you don't know and what you don't know you don't know the maquettes know there's food here what they don't know is that the guy who set up this operation is making bootleg
Video examples
Drunk Monkeys PIPE National...
what else a gigantic appetite know in life there's what you know and what you don't know and what you don't know you don't know the maquettes know there's food here what they don't know is that the guy who set up this operation is making bootleg
Video examples
Drunk Monkeys PIPE National...
they don't know is that the guy who set up this operation is making bootleg liquor by fermenting fruit and what they don't know they don't know is what happens when a relatively tiny macaque body encounters the kind of liquor that
Video examples
Making white people...
you're known for Iranian uranium enrichment now this last example is not edible if you're from a country where the stereotype is not edible you need to change the stereotype okay I wrote a show called bootleg Islam and in this
Video examples
What It Takes to Keep...
in july 2021 the bootleg fire burned over 400 000 acres in southern oregon it burned about 25 percent of our treaty rights area and burned into our aboriginal territory into mule deer winter range and other important places
Video examples
The myth of the gay...
across a bootleg copy of the official gay agenda and I said to myself LZ for so long you have been denied this when you get in front of this crowd you're gonna share the news you're gonna spread
Video examples
LZ Granderson: The myth...
But then something wonderful I was out shopping, as I tend to do, and I came across a bootleg copy of the official gay agenda. And I said to myself, "LZ, for so long, you have been denied this.
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Larry Wilmore
American Comedian
No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting arrest shouldn't be death. The punishment for selling bootleg CDs shouldn't be death. The punishment for having a gun in an open-carry state shouldn't be death. The punishment for being a black man shouldn't be death.
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Kayvan Novak
English Actor
You don't read many positive things about Iran in the press, which is depressing, but when I go back to my grandparents' house in the hills, and I'm sitting by the pool, sipping a bootleg Turkish beer, watching a pirate DVD, eating my grandma's cooking... you realise there is a real bridge between politics and country and people.
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Ashley Greene
American Actress
Skinny jeans are usually my go to jean. I do bootleg every once in a while, boyfriend jeans I feel like are so hard to pull off! Skinny jeans are very easy and you can kind of pair anything with them and it will work: heels and boots or nice top or flouncy top.
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Pete Hamill
American Journalist
Bootleggers were romanticized by people like F. Scott Fitzgerald, for example. Gatsby is a bootlegger. And they were not thought of as evil criminals in the newspapers, either. There was a certain amount of affection for them.
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David Coverdale
English Musician
When certain bootleg companies started off and they would take maybe ten per cent of whatever they got and help fuel new bands, which I'm cool with, I think that's a good idea. Most of the record companies are not doing that.
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Taj Mahal
American Musician
I've only been on MTV once as one of their 'Closet Classics,' with some bootleg footage of a 1970 tour I did in Holland. They didn't know what to make of my music, but they finally invented a name for it - world beat music.
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Tony Hillerman
American Author
Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On Drugs, where every teenager knew who the bootleggers were.
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Katie Melua
Georgian Musician
Queen were the first western band I got hooked on. I got a bootleg - there was hardly any legal buying of CDs in Georgia.
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Stephen Hillenburg
American Actor
I see SpongeBob on ice-cream trucks a lot, and I've got bootleg SpongeBob merchandise from Mexico.
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Peter Hook
English Musician
Bootleggers quake in fear of me ringing them on a Sunday afternoon. I call after dinner, usually.
Quote examples
Larry Wilmore
American Comedian
No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting arrest shouldn't be death. The punishment for selling bootleg CDs shouldn't be death. The punishment for having a gun in an open-carry state shouldn't be death. The punishment for being a black man shouldn't be death.
Quote examples
Kayvan Novak
English Actor
You don't read many positive things about Iran in the press, which is depressing, but when I go back to my grandparents' house in the hills, and I'm sitting by the pool, sipping a bootleg Turkish beer, watching a pirate DVD, eating my grandma's cooking... you realise there is a real bridge between politics and country and people.
Quote examples
Ashley Greene
American Actress
Skinny jeans are usually my go to jean. I do bootleg every once in a while, boyfriend jeans I feel like are so hard to pull off! Skinny jeans are very easy and you can kind of pair anything with them and it will work: heels and boots or nice top or flouncy top.
Quote examples
Pete Hamill
American Journalist
Bootleggers were romanticized by people like F. Scott Fitzgerald, for example. Gatsby is a bootlegger. And they were not thought of as evil criminals in the newspapers, either. There was a certain amount of affection for them.
Quote examples
David Coverdale
English Musician
When certain bootleg companies started off and they would take maybe ten per cent of whatever they got and help fuel new bands, which I'm cool with, I think that's a good idea. Most of the record companies are not doing that.
Quote examples
Taj Mahal
American Musician
I've only been on MTV once as one of their 'Closet Classics,' with some bootleg footage of a 1970 tour I did in Holland. They didn't know what to make of my music, but they finally invented a name for it - world beat music.
Quote examples
Tony Hillerman
American Author
Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On Drugs, where every teenager knew who the bootleggers were.
Quote examples
Katie Melua
Georgian Musician
Queen were the first western band I got hooked on. I got a bootleg - there was hardly any legal buying of CDs in Georgia.
Quote examples
Stephen Hillenburg
American Actor
I see SpongeBob on ice-cream trucks a lot, and I've got bootleg SpongeBob merchandise from Mexico.
Quote examples
Peter Hook
English Musician
Bootleggers quake in fear of me ringing them on a Sunday afternoon. I call after dinner, usually.
Example 1 of 10
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