bootlegged

[boot-legd]

adjective

1. bootleg.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bootlegged¹

bootleg, -ed ³

Example Sentences

When Slim is reluctant to skip his steady gig for these sharks, Stack almost magically gifts him a bootlegged Irish beer from Chicago.

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Hildebrandt said that a decade ago, dental students in her classes “were basically giving each other thumb drives with bootlegged copies of the head and neck.”

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Indians are more likely to find bootlegged versions than to find them streaming on commercial platforms.

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In the salons I went to as a child, I remember men peddling bootlegged movies and fashions to the clients with their hair wrapped or freshly sheened as they dug for cash in their purses.

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Some of Rodriguez songs were banned by the apartheid regime and many bootlegged copies were made on tapes and later CDs.

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Related Words

• contraband 
• illicit 
• pirated www.thesaurus.com
• smuggled www.thesaurus.com
• unauthorized