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Definition of bootleg in English: bootlegadjectiveˈbuːtlɛɡˈbutˌlɛɡ (of alcoholic drink or a recording) made, distributed, or sold illegally. （酒，唱片等）非法生产（或运输、贩卖）的 盗版盒式磁带。 Example sentencesExamples - Over 40 years, he has produced something like 40 ‘official’ albums, supplemented by a slew of live LPs and even more bootleg recordings.
- After two years at college Slim was expelled for selling bootleg whiskey to other students.
- Rocker-turned-activist Geldof said he had consented to a DVD release of the 1985 concert because of the large number of bootleg recordings available.
- But many Americans, especially in the cities, rejected prohibition; speakeasies flourished and bootleg liquor flowed freely in many municipalities.
- The bootleg booze industry in Boston wasn't affected in the least.
- The move is being proposed in order to clamp down on bootleg whisky, which Brown claims costs the taxpayer £600m a year in lost tax revenue.
- The multimillion-pound black market in bootleg films and CDs is thriving because prosecutors let criminals off the hook, it was claimed last night.
- I personally have never seen bootleg alcohol and cigarettes sold from the back of a hatchback as reported.
- There is, of course, the town drunk, Otis, who acquires bootleg liquor from various moonshiners in that dry county on a regular basis and regularly celebrates the anniversary of his first drink.
- Alcohol was banned, yet many drank bootleg vodka.
- Perhaps this has to do with the imprecision of live recording, but it almost sounds like a bootleg recording.
- I honestly thought it must be some kind of bootleg recording of one of the acoustic shows I did back in the late eighties.
- This double CD of Ian Hunter's latest tour of Britain in support of his latest official release, the critically acclaimed ‘Rant’, is a bootleg recording.
- The demand for illicit drugs is as strong as the nation's thirst for bootleg booze during Prohibition.
- Later, the islands were used as a smuggling stopover for arms in the civil war and for bootleg alcohol during Prohibition.
- This is the woman who carried on drinking bootleg liquor after Prohibition was lifted because she preferred the taste.
- Scotland's deputy chief medical officer, Dr Andrew Fraser, warned anyone drinking the bootleg vodka could be in serious danger.
- The bootleg alcohol that was produced then, often called gut-rot, tasted so vile that the bartenders learned to mix the alcohol with fruit juices to disguise the taste.
- In March, one woman died and another was left seriously ill after drinking bootleg vodka.
- Rumours that a bootleg recording of him singing in the hotel bar still exists is just one of the enthralling tales which surround the famous venue.
Synonyms illegal, illicit, unlawful, unauthorized, unsanctioned, unlicensed, unofficial, pirated
verbbootlegged, bootlegs, bootlegging ˈbuːtlɛɡˈbutˌlɛɡ [with object]Make, distribute, or sell (alcoholic drink or a recording) illegally. 非法生产；走私 he amassed a fortune bootlegging whisky Example sentencesExamples - These tapes - amazingly by the standards of Dylan collectors - have never been bootlegged, but can be heard on the BBC documentary.
- Trading standards bosses at North Yorkshire County Council say that over the past year, they have discovered a number of pubs putting bootlegged whisky, vodka and rum in popular branded bottles.
- It's also expected to cut down on the import of cheaper, bootlegged alcohol by lowering the cost of buying legally-ordered supplies.
- For example, before we went into Louisiana, a lot of people were bootlegging our product into Louisiana, so when we arrived there, people already knew about it.
- They were sold from a number of different accounts and the man did not say they were bootlegged or illegal in any way.
- My first real business was bootlegging T-shirts.
- Recently, their EP fetched over $500 on Ebay from a U.S. collector, with a German label's bootlegging of their unreleased ‘album’ only adding more fuel to the fire.
- Commerce Secretary Evans, in China, was complaining about bootlegged copies of American movies selling there for about $1.
- He's been involved in some illegal imports, you know, guns, drugs, bootlegged Metallica T-shirts; but we haven't been able to make anything stick yet.
- In 2001, 29% of the pirated films seized were on DVD; so far this year 59% have been bootlegged DVDs.
- It's been bootlegged quite a lot though--check out your nearest record fair.
- In a way I look at the fact it was bootlegged as a compliment.
- If you see a couple of mic stands being attended by some dude with a rock shirt, that show is probably being bootlegged.
- The VCDs are affordable and not bootlegged by illegal manufacturers,’ he said.
- Miles Davis's much bootlegged performances in Poland in the 1980s were signature moments in the decline of Polish Communism, symbols of a yearned-for freedom.
- So unless someone was helpfully bootlegging it, I don't know how you could hear the whole thing.
- I've also spoken to people whose work has been bootlegged.
- They have yet to cut an album, but a group of enterprising kids have recorded their concerts and are selling bootlegged cassettes all over the district at $4 each.
- They bootlegged liquor during the depression, then went legit.
- National prohibition provided lucrative illegal markets, which some Italian Americans successfully exploited through bootlegging operations.
Synonyms illegal, illicit, unlawful, unauthorized, unsanctioned, unlicensed, unofficial, pirated
nounPlural bootlegsˈbuːtlɛɡˈbutˌlɛɡ 1An illegal musical recording, especially one made at a concert. （尤指音乐会的）盗版唱片 Example sentencesExamples - This is one of those Italian bootlegs of live concerts.
- In a sense the tinny and muddy nature of the production seems natural to the music, suggesting a connection to, say, the early 70s Zappa bootlegs that probably take up an entire wall of his apartment.
- In a nearby record shop, most of the CDs by Western artists were decent-quality bootlegs.
- He owns all the albums as well as several bootlegs.
- Until last year, my only act of resistance involved trading copies of live shows and bootlegs on the internet.
- In an effort to transcend the dodgy sound quality and high prices of bootlegs, the band has recorded every concert over the past three years.
- Sometimes I feel like a studio album, other times a live bootleg from a concert I went to.
- The is a hodgepodge of performances that also features a couple of readily available tracks, and the sound quality is for the most part no better than a good bootleg.
- Partially broadcast by the BBC in 1982, a bootleg has been circulating ever since.
- Much to our chagrin, someone put out a bootleg recorded at rehearsals.
- ‘Your article focused on the dance community, but many of us are rock music fans and happen to buy concert bootlegs.’
- I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in - so the bootlegs I obtained in the Sixties and Seventies, where the noise and grit of the tapes became inseparable from the music, are essential to me.
- When you guys first hit the scene with your bootlegs, record companies gave you lots of flak.
- Seems ne'er-do-wells are pressing illegal copies of records and then selling bootlegs at much lower prices than official record shops.
- Many of them are bootlegs made by a sneaky soundman or concertgoer and are of a quality dubious enough to repel the casual listener.
- Fortunately, live bootlegs of the track are readily available to even the most novice trader.
- Now that this is packaged as a real release instead of a bootleg, it comes off as a substandard product.
- I have spent 15 years collecting Beatles bootlegs and am pleased to say that there are many excellent recordings of these sessions.
- Meanwhile, bootlegs of the finished product circulated, generating critical kudos, a groundswell of interest, and a bidding war among nearly 30 other labels.
- At least one track has been available on bootlegs for years.
Synonyms fake, counterfeit, sham, fraud, imitation, dummy, mock-up, reproduction, replica, copy, print, lookalike, likeness 2American Football
A play in which the quarterback pretends to hand the ball to a teammate but continues to carry it, concealing it from opposing players by holding it near his hip. he scored on a 29-yard bootleg on fourth down Example sentencesExamples - Garcia runs a bootleg for a touchdown, and the 49ers are back in it.
- Every time he throws, it needs to stem from the run, whether it's play-action or on bootleg, so he can avoid the pressure and not succumb to it like better quarterbacks have done.
- The way things are going, they're better off passing or running a quarterback sneak or bootleg.
- The Seahawks almost can guarantee they will get single coverage when they play-action to the left and then have Hasselbeck bootleg to his right.
- David Garrard also has had success on quarterback keepers and bootlegs off of play fakes.
- The beauty of this scheme is that if defenders get wise and increase their backside pursuit, the quarterback can run bootlegs because the defense no longer has anyone to contain the outside perimeter.
- Another problem that hasn't been changed is the inability to set your quarterback off on a scramble or bootleg without crossing the line of scrimmage first.
- As he continues to improve his pass rush, he must be aware of teams either running screens to his side or using naked bootlegs if the quarterback is mobile.
- Eagles coaches did not call a single bootleg or quarterback draw for the most talented QB runner in the sport.
- Still recovering from a broken leg, he can't make certain cuts or bootleg to his left without pain.
- Eli's really good when he can play-action and bootleg.
- It looked like a monumental mistake when he faked a handoff and backpedaled as if to start a naked bootleg, only to find a couple of Saints in his way.
- He has proved he can catch 1-yard touchdown passes, but he hasn't shown he can get open when there isn't a play-action fake or bootleg.
- It's not enough to just drop back in the pocket - you have to create, make things happen, roll out, bootleg.
Derivativesnounˈbuːtlɛɡəˈbutˌlɛɡər A bootlegger was today behind bars for his part in smuggling £1.6m worth of cigarettes into the country. Example sentencesExamples - Pubs, clubs and people's homes were still the most common places for bootleggers to sell illicit goods.
- In Spain, bootleggers selling pirated CDs and DVDs are common sights on the street.
- The Evening Press recently revealed that bootleggers were flooding the city with pirate DVDs of film blockbusters only just released at cinemas.
- But there is still access to caves along the beach area once used by bootleggers during prohibition to smuggle in illegal booze from offshore boats.
OriginLate 19th century: from the smugglers' practice of concealing bottles in their boots. Definition of bootleg in US English: bootlegadjectiveˈbutˌlɛɡˈbo͞otˌleɡ attributive (especially of liquor, computer software, or recordings) made, distributed, or sold illegally. （酒，唱片等）非法生产（或运输、贩卖）的 盗版盒式磁带。 走私酒。 Example sentencesExamples - The bootleg alcohol that was produced then, often called gut-rot, tasted so vile that the bartenders learned to mix the alcohol with fruit juices to disguise the taste.
- I personally have never seen bootleg alcohol and cigarettes sold from the back of a hatchback as reported.
- Later, the islands were used as a smuggling stopover for arms in the civil war and for bootleg alcohol during Prohibition.
- Over 40 years, he has produced something like 40 ‘official’ albums, supplemented by a slew of live LPs and even more bootleg recordings.
- Perhaps this has to do with the imprecision of live recording, but it almost sounds like a bootleg recording.
- This is the woman who carried on drinking bootleg liquor after Prohibition was lifted because she preferred the taste.
- The bootleg booze industry in Boston wasn't affected in the least.
- There is, of course, the town drunk, Otis, who acquires bootleg liquor from various moonshiners in that dry county on a regular basis and regularly celebrates the anniversary of his first drink.
- Rocker-turned-activist Geldof said he had consented to a DVD release of the 1985 concert because of the large number of bootleg recordings available.
- But many Americans, especially in the cities, rejected prohibition; speakeasies flourished and bootleg liquor flowed freely in many municipalities.
- After two years at college Slim was expelled for selling bootleg whiskey to other students.
- The multimillion-pound black market in bootleg films and CDs is thriving because prosecutors let criminals off the hook, it was claimed last night.
- I honestly thought it must be some kind of bootleg recording of one of the acoustic shows I did back in the late eighties.
- The demand for illicit drugs is as strong as the nation's thirst for bootleg booze during Prohibition.
- This double CD of Ian Hunter's latest tour of Britain in support of his latest official release, the critically acclaimed ‘Rant’, is a bootleg recording.
- The move is being proposed in order to clamp down on bootleg whisky, which Brown claims costs the taxpayer £600m a year in lost tax revenue.
- Rumours that a bootleg recording of him singing in the hotel bar still exists is just one of the enthralling tales which surround the famous venue.
- Alcohol was banned, yet many drank bootleg vodka.
- In March, one woman died and another was left seriously ill after drinking bootleg vodka.
- Scotland's deputy chief medical officer, Dr Andrew Fraser, warned anyone drinking the bootleg vodka could be in serious danger.
Synonyms illegal, illicit, unlawful, unauthorized, unsanctioned, unlicensed, unofficial, pirated
verbˈbutˌlɛɡˈbo͞otˌleɡ [with object]Make, distribute, or sell (illicit goods, especially liquor, computer software, or recordings) illegally. he amassed a fortune bootlegging whiskey Example sentencesExamples - In a way I look at the fact it was bootlegged as a compliment.
- So unless someone was helpfully bootlegging it, I don't know how you could hear the whole thing.
- Trading standards bosses at North Yorkshire County Council say that over the past year, they have discovered a number of pubs putting bootlegged whisky, vodka and rum in popular branded bottles.
- These tapes - amazingly by the standards of Dylan collectors - have never been bootlegged, but can be heard on the BBC documentary.
- It's been bootlegged quite a lot though--check out your nearest record fair.
- Recently, their EP fetched over $500 on Ebay from a U.S. collector, with a German label's bootlegging of their unreleased ‘album’ only adding more fuel to the fire.
- For example, before we went into Louisiana, a lot of people were bootlegging our product into Louisiana, so when we arrived there, people already knew about it.
- National prohibition provided lucrative illegal markets, which some Italian Americans successfully exploited through bootlegging operations.
- Commerce Secretary Evans, in China, was complaining about bootlegged copies of American movies selling there for about $1.
- Miles Davis's much bootlegged performances in Poland in the 1980s were signature moments in the decline of Polish Communism, symbols of a yearned-for freedom.
- They have yet to cut an album, but a group of enterprising kids have recorded their concerts and are selling bootlegged cassettes all over the district at $4 each.
- He's been involved in some illegal imports, you know, guns, drugs, bootlegged Metallica T-shirts; but we haven't been able to make anything stick yet.
- They were sold from a number of different accounts and the man did not say they were bootlegged or illegal in any way.
- I've also spoken to people whose work has been bootlegged.
- In 2001, 29% of the pirated films seized were on DVD; so far this year 59% have been bootlegged DVDs.
- They bootlegged liquor during the depression, then went legit.
- My first real business was bootlegging T-shirts.
- The VCDs are affordable and not bootlegged by illegal manufacturers,’ he said.
- It's also expected to cut down on the import of cheaper, bootlegged alcohol by lowering the cost of buying legally-ordered supplies.
- If you see a couple of mic stands being attended by some dude with a rock shirt, that show is probably being bootlegged.
Synonyms illegal, illicit, unlawful, unauthorized, unsanctioned, unlicensed, unofficial, pirated
nounˈbutˌlɛɡˈbo͞otˌleɡ 1An illegal musical recording, especially one made at a concert. （尤指音乐会的）盗版唱片 Example sentencesExamples - Meanwhile, bootlegs of the finished product circulated, generating critical kudos, a groundswell of interest, and a bidding war among nearly 30 other labels.
- Fortunately, live bootlegs of the track are readily available to even the most novice trader.
- I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in - so the bootlegs I obtained in the Sixties and Seventies, where the noise and grit of the tapes became inseparable from the music, are essential to me.
- Now that this is packaged as a real release instead of a bootleg, it comes off as a substandard product.
- I have spent 15 years collecting Beatles bootlegs and am pleased to say that there are many excellent recordings of these sessions.
- Sometimes I feel like a studio album, other times a live bootleg from a concert I went to.
- In a nearby record shop, most of the CDs by Western artists were decent-quality bootlegs.
- Partially broadcast by the BBC in 1982, a bootleg has been circulating ever since.
- In an effort to transcend the dodgy sound quality and high prices of bootlegs, the band has recorded every concert over the past three years.
- He owns all the albums as well as several bootlegs.
- In a sense the tinny and muddy nature of the production seems natural to the music, suggesting a connection to, say, the early 70s Zappa bootlegs that probably take up an entire wall of his apartment.
- Seems ne'er-do-wells are pressing illegal copies of records and then selling bootlegs at much lower prices than official record shops.
- The is a hodgepodge of performances that also features a couple of readily available tracks, and the sound quality is for the most part no better than a good bootleg.
- Much to our chagrin, someone put out a bootleg recorded at rehearsals.
- When you guys first hit the scene with your bootlegs, record companies gave you lots of flak.
- This is one of those Italian bootlegs of live concerts.
- ‘Your article focused on the dance community, but many of us are rock music fans and happen to buy concert bootlegs.’
- Until last year, my only act of resistance involved trading copies of live shows and bootlegs on the internet.
- Many of them are bootlegs made by a sneaky soundman or concertgoer and are of a quality dubious enough to repel the casual listener.
- At least one track has been available on bootlegs for years.
Synonyms fake, counterfeit, sham, fraud, imitation, dummy, mock-up, reproduction, replica, copy, print, lookalike, likeness 2American Football
A play in which the quarterback fakes a handoff and runs with the ball hidden next to his hip. he scored on a 29-yard bootleg on fourth down Example sentencesExamples - Every time he throws, it needs to stem from the run, whether it's play-action or on bootleg, so he can avoid the pressure and not succumb to it like better quarterbacks have done.
- He has proved he can catch 1-yard touchdown passes, but he hasn't shown he can get open when there isn't a play-action fake or bootleg.
- The way things are going, they're better off passing or running a quarterback sneak or bootleg.
- As he continues to improve his pass rush, he must be aware of teams either running screens to his side or using naked bootlegs if the quarterback is mobile.
- It looked like a monumental mistake when he faked a handoff and backpedaled as if to start a naked bootleg, only to find a couple of Saints in his way.
- Still recovering from a broken leg, he can't make certain cuts or bootleg to his left without pain.
- David Garrard also has had success on quarterback keepers and bootlegs off of play fakes.
- Garcia runs a bootleg for a touchdown, and the 49ers are back in it.
- The Seahawks almost can guarantee they will get single coverage when they play-action to the left and then have Hasselbeck bootleg to his right.
- The beauty of this scheme is that if defenders get wise and increase their backside pursuit, the quarterback can run bootlegs because the defense no longer has anyone to contain the outside perimeter.
- It's not enough to just drop back in the pocket - you have to create, make things happen, roll out, bootleg.
- Another problem that hasn't been changed is the inability to set your quarterback off on a scramble or bootleg without crossing the line of scrimmage first.
- Eagles coaches did not call a single bootleg or quarterback draw for the most talented QB runner in the sport.
- Eli's really good when he can play-action and bootleg.
OriginLate 19th century: from the smugglers' practice of concealing bottles in their boots. |