Bootleg

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
• Bootleg (TV serial)
• 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 Children's 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:

• Bootleg (comics), a character from the comic book New Men
• Bootleg (Emulation)

As a term applied to copyright infringement:

• Bootleg recording, an otherwise unavailable audio or video recording of a live performance or screening (see Cam (bootleg)) distributed without consent
• Counterfeit merchandise
• Mashup (music), music which contains unlicensed samples of other music
• Bootleg role-playing games, illegally copied rulebooks for tabletop role-playing games

Music

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