bootlegger
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boot·leg
(bo͞ot′lĕg′)v. boot·legged, boot·leg·ging, boot·legs
v.tr.
1. To make, sell, or transport (alcoholic liquor) for sale illegally.
2. To produce, distribute, or sell without permission or illegally: a clandestine outfit that bootlegs compact discs and tapes.
v.intr.
1. To engage in the bootlegging of alcoholic liquor or another product.
2. To attach a transmitter to a dish antenna, creating an uplink via which a signal is sent to a satellite without the knowledge of the satellite's owner.
3. Football To fake a hand-off, conceal the ball on the hip, and roll out in order to pass or especially to rush around the end. Used of a quarterback.
n.
1. A product, especially alcoholic liquor, that is illicitly produced, distributed, or sold.
2. The part of a boot above the instep.
3. Football A play in which the quarterback bootlegs.
adj.
Produced, sold, or transported illegally: bootleg gin; bootleg tapes.
[From a smuggler's practice of carrying liquor in the legs of boots.]
boot′leg′ger n.
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| Noun | 1. |  bootlegger - someone who makes or sells illegal liquorcriminal, crook, felon, malefactor, outlaw - someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime |
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bootlegger
nounA person who engages in smuggling:
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bootlegger
[ˈbuːtˌlegəʳ] N [of alcohol] → contrabandista mf; [of tapes, recordings] → productor/a m/f de copias pirataCollins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
bootlegger
[ˈbuːtlegər] n → pirate m (qui se livre à l'enregistrement et à la vente de matériel audiovisuel)Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995