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1. Distributed or sold illicitly
   "the bootleg economy pays no taxes";
   - black, black-market, contraband, smuggled

1. Whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash
   - moonshine [informal], corn liquor, white lightning [N. Amer, informal]
    
2. The part of a boot above the instep

1. (crime) sell illicit products such as drugs or alcohol
   "They were bootlegging whiskey"
    
2. Produce or distribute illegally
   "bootleg tapes of the diva's singing"

Derived forms: bootlegged, bootlegs, bootlegging

See also: illegal

Type of: corn, corn whiskey, corn whisky, covering, create, flog [Brit, informal], make, produce, sell

Part of: boot

Encyclopedia: Bootleg