Definitions
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- verb Present participle of
bootleg .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of selling illegally or without permission
- noun the act of making or transporting alcoholic liquor for sale illegally
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Examples
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Who would have the resources to invest in 'bootlegging' an Open Source application?
Open Source, Closed Market? William "Papa" Meloney 2007
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Who would have the resources to invest in 'bootlegging' an Open Source application?
Archive 2007-05-06 William "Papa" Meloney 2007
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Who would have the resources to invest in 'bootlegging' an Open Source application?
Archive 2007-05-01 William "Papa" Meloney 2007
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US CD/DVD bootlegging is not run by organized crime
Boing Boing 2005
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The Advertising Standards Agency was asked to investigate the anti-piracy ads that run before the UK's movies, in which a link between terrorism and DVD bootlegging is asserted.
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Here's a story about a US Marine onboard an amphibious assualt vehicle who's making great coin bootlegging games, porn, music and movies on burnable CDs and selling 'em to his shipmates.
Boing Boing: November 4, 2001 - November 10, 2001 Archives 2001
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The publisher of the Nassau Tribune referred to the bootlegging crowd and the business they conducted as “the orgy of the Lucerne.”
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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Ross and Herd cited two reasons for not going into a direct partnership with the Bronfmans: one they summarized as “race,” and the other they characterized as “the class of business with which they were associated”—namely, bootlegging.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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The publisher of the Nassau Tribune referred to the bootlegging crowd and the business they conducted as “the orgy of the Lucerne.”
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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Ross and Herd cited two reasons for not going into a direct partnership with the Bronfmans: one they summarized as “race,” and the other they characterized as “the class of business with which they were associated”—namely, bootlegging.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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