bootlegging
- present participle of bootleg.
Example Sentences
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Ryan Coogler’s bootlegging, Southern vampire blockbuster is smart, ambitious, original and masterfully executed — a classic best picture contender.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025
“We’re in an impossible situation that’s reminiscent of the Prohibition era, where the federal government prohibited alcoholic beverages, bootlegging was rampant, and that’s exactly what’s happening in the District today,” Mendelson said.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 17, 2022
Elsewhere, Rosalía raps, “I think I’m Dapper Dan,” high fashion’s onetime bootlegging remixer.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2022
The deal is complicated by a recent ruling by the World Trade Organization that the Saudis facilitated the bootlegging of sports broadcasts, as well as the kingdom’s human rights record.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 21, 2020
Foreign bootlegging of minerals is so thorough that our neighbor the French Congo, without a single diamond mine in its borders, is the world’s fifth-largest exporter of diamonds.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
