bootleg
booht leg
- n whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash
- n the part of a boot above the instep
- v sell illicit products such as drugs or alcohol
They were bootlegging whiskey - v produce or distribute illegally
bootleg tapes of the diva's singing - s distributed or sold illicitly
- Last winter 2,500 tons of bootleg coal per day was pouring into the New York City area alone.
- Music rip-off artists go upscale with CDs, but the stars fight back with bootleg albums of their own.
- Obsessively researched, beautifully written, Chang's book is the funky, bootleg, B-side remix of late--20th century American history.