Meaning

5 senses
  1. The part of a boot that is above the instep.

    Holonyms: upper < boot

    Stiefelschaft

    голени́щеgoleníšče

    the part of a boot above the instep

  2. An illegally produced, transported, or sold product.

    He thinks he can cross this border with bootleg and get away with it. I doubt he's right. Maybe years ago, but not nowadays.

    Kontrabande, Raubgut, Schmuggelware

  3. An unauthorized recording; for example, of a live concert.

    Years ago I heard a fantastic bootleg of that song. It was my favorite rendition.

  4. A remix or mashup that is a combination of two songs but that is not authorized and audited for copyright use; primarily in the electronic music scene.

  5. A play in which the quarterback fakes a handoff, conceals the ball against his hip, and rolls out.

Examples

4 sentences
  1. Tom got arrested for bootlegging.

  2. I just got some new bootleg tapes.

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  3. That's a bootleg cartridge.

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  4. The number of criminals involved in bootlegging outnumbered the federal agents who tried to enforce the law.

Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
that part of a boot that is above the instep:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
that part of a boot that is above the instep:
an illegally produced, transported or sold product; contraband:

Origin

From boot + leg. Originally a nickname given to smugglers in King George III's reign, deri

From boot + leg. Originally a nickname given to smugglers in King George III's reign, derived from the smugglers' custom of hiding packages of valuables in their large sea-boots when dodging the king's coastguardsmen.

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Forms

plural: bootlegs
Singularbootleg
Pluralbootlegs

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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