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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.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Bootleg" Quotes from Famous Books



... day for the farmers who lived in the adjoining countryside ... and the livery stables where they put up their horses were also resorts for gambling and the selling of "bootleg" booze.... ...
— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp
... unlaced his boot on the right foot, folded the paper, and thrust it into the bootleg. Then, relacing the shoe, he arose ...
— The Sky Line of Spruce • Edison Marshall
... Reaching out his hand abstractedly, he wrenched off a small slip from a sapling near him, and began slowly to pull the leaves off, one by one, until they were all gone. Then he switched it in the air, struck his bootleg smartly with it, said roughly: "Come, let's get ...
— Selected Stories • Bret Harte


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