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bootleg
adjective- smuggled; illegally copied; unofficial; counterfeit US, 1889
Derives from the practice of carrying a flat bottle of alcohol hidden in a boot leg. - Another Negro industry is the sale of bootleg booze. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 55, 1951
- A group of gangster made me their distributor for booting whiskey. — Jim Thompson, Roughneck, 1954
- He got tagged smuggling a truckload of bootleg cigarettes up from Virginia[.] — Janet Evanovich, Seven Up, p. 3, 2001
- imitation US, 1893
- Half of the Black “militans” ain’t nothing but a bunch of potheads, bootleg preachers and coffeehouse intellectuals. — H. Rap Brown, Die Nigger Die!, p. 104, 1969
- inferior, shoddy US
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 1, November 2002
- (used of an action paper) unofficial, advance US
- — Department of the Army, Staff Officer’s Guidebook, p. 56, 1986
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