bootleg
noun
alcoholic liquor unlawfully made, sold, or transported, without registration or payment of taxes.
had bootlegged
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past perfectof bootleg.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Keith had one of the more palatial tents, tricked out like an in-home theater, with lounge chairs, a television, a space heater and a tangle of extension cords for electricity he had bootlegged.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2019
They had bootlegged meat, fowl, milk, cheese, potatoes, eggs.
From Time Magazine Archive
The rock was hard to work in, so that it took him a full half a day to put in four shots, and then he would be likely to find that they had "bootlegged."
From Casey Ryan by B. M. Bower
