bootleg \bootleg\ v. 1. to sell illicit products such as drugs or alcohol.
Syn: smuggle. [WordNet 1.5]
2. to produce alcohol illegally. [WordNet 1.5]
The films may have been shown years ago, but only in bootleg versions, the Burbank, Calif., company said.
And he also encourages subordinates to do what President Reagan's subordinates at the National Security Council apparently did: keep information away from "upstairs" and bootleg their own policies.
This mobster is not a killer, but a song-and-dance man, and he'd rather star in his own nightclub act than take over the city's bootleg operations. He eventually succeeds, but his climb to show biz success seems predictable from the start.
On Sunday, it was reported that a local party leader in Guizhou was sentenced to death for selling bootleg liquor.
Not only did the jury's award strike a blow against those who sold the "bootleg gasoline," as the company put it, but the punitive damages were $4 million more than Getty had sought.
Aubrey Palmer, a San Franciscan suffering AIDS and its characteristic pneumonia, says he mixes his morning orange juice with a bootleg version of the drug AL-721, which is derived from egg yolks.
Japanese songs remain banned here, but bootleg music videos of Japanese teen stars are showing up in chic Seoul bars.