Bootleg

The term bootlegging originally came from concealing hip flasks of alcohol in the legs of boots.

Bootleg or bootlegging

• Bootleg (radio), the use of illegal equipment, frequencies, or operating procedures in two-way radio
• Bootleg mining, hidden or illegal coal mining
• Bootleg play, a tactic in American football
• Bootleg turn, a driving maneuver
• Bootleg pants or Bell-bottoms, trousers which flare out at the bottom of the legs to allow room for large boots
• Bootlegging (business), secret innovation within an organization
• Bootlegging, a slang term to describe the illegal operation of a speeder on a railway
• Rum-running (smuggling liquor)
• Smuggling more generally

The term bootlegger is used for a special type of 1920 to 1930s raceboat used for rum-running during Prohibition.

As a term applied to copyright infringement

• Bootleg recording, an otherwise unavailable audio or video recording of a live performance or screening. See also:
  • Cam (bootleg) distributed without consent
  • Ripping
  • Screener
• Bootleg role-playing games, unauthorised copies of rulebooks for tabletop role-playing games
• Counterfeit merchandise
• Mashup (music), music which contains unlicensed samples of other music

Moving images

• Bootleg (1985), an Australian film
• Bootleg (TV serial)
• Bootleggers (film), a 1961 Soviet short film about alcohol bootlegging

Music

• "Boot-Leg", a song by Booker T & the MG's
• Bootleg (Bad News album)
• "Bootleg", a song by Creedence Clearwater Revival
• Bootleg (Downchild Blues Band album)
• Bootleg (Eric's Trip album)
• Bootleg (Larry Norman album)
• Bootleg (Tempest album)
• Bootlegs (Good Charlotte album)
• Bootlegs (Kristy Thirsk album)
• Bootlegged, Distorted, Remixed and Uploaded
• Live Bootleg (disambiguation), a number of albums

As a proper noun

• Bootleg (comics), a character from the comic book New Men
• Bootleg, a brand name used by C&J Clark for children's shoes and trainers