bootleg
noun
alcoholic liquor unlawfully made, sold, or transported, without registration or payment of taxes.
bootlegs
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present tense formof bootleg (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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If you didn’t tape a copy off of your local FM station, it wasn’t hard to find somebody that did, and it became one of the first commercial R.E.M. bootlegs.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
Patrick Mahomes is coming off knee surgery, and Andy Reid will need to scheme around what he can’t do yet, mainly moving out of the pocket on bootlegs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
And presumably, he can print some crazy, one-off Deep Purple bootlegs just for himself?
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2023
There are tour rehearsals, audio experiments, handwritten lyrics, stacks of Velvet Underground bootlegs and even Coney Island Mermaid Parade banners from 2010, when Reed and Anderson served as king and queen.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2022
The trousers were checkered, of ash-gray color, and his sapogi had short, unblacked military bootlegs.
From Stories by Foreign Authors: Russian by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
