bootleg

Meanings

1. To engage in bootlegging.
2. To make, transport and/or sell illegal alcoholic liquor.
3. To make, transport and/or sell an illegal version or copy of a copyrighted product.
4. To operate a mine illicitly.

1. The part of a boot that is above the instep.
2. An illegally produced, transported, or sold product.
3. An unauthorized recording; for example, of a live concert.
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.

1. Illegally produced, transported, or sold.
2. Being an inferior imitation of something, possibly a counterfeit.

Etymology

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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