Bootleg

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Bootleg or bootlegging usually refers to making, transporting and/or selling illegal alcoholic liquor or copyrighted material; the term originates from concealing hip flasks of alcohol in the legging of boots. Bootleg may also refer to:

  • Smuggling
  • Counterfeit
  • Rum-running, the sale or transport of liquor without regard to legal regulations and taxes
  • Bootleg mining, hidden or illegal coal mining
  • Bootleg (radio), the use of illegal equipment, frequencies, or operating procedures in two-way radio
  • Bootlegging (business), the secret organization of an innovation process
  • Bootleggers (film), a 1961 Soviet short film about alcohol bootlegging
  • Bootleg play, a tactic in American football
  • Bootleg turn, a driving maneuver
  • Bootleg, a brand name used by C&J Clark for Childrens shoes and trainers.
  • Bootlegging, a common colloquial slang term amongst owners of railroad speeders to describe the illegal operation of a Speeder on a railway.
  • Bell-bottoms or bootleg pants, trousers which flare out at the bottom of the legs and may cover the wearer's shoes

As a proper noun:

As a term applied to copyright infringement:

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