- present participle of bootleg.
bootlegging
Example Sentences
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We have made a lot of experimental moves with the way we’ve released records — bootlegging stuff for free.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025
To combat the bootlegging, his team chose to persuade major retailers to buy scrunchies from them rather than seek damages through litigation.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 19, 2022
Elsewhere, Rosalía raps, “I think I’m Dapper Dan,” high fashion’s onetime bootlegging remixer.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2022
The deal is complicated by a recent ruling by the World Trade Organization that the Saudis facilitated the bootlegging of sports broadcasts, as well as the kingdom’s human rights record.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 21, 2020
Foreign bootlegging of minerals is so thorough that our neighbor the French Congo, without a single diamond mine in its borders, is the world’s fifth-largest exporter of diamonds.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
