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bootleg

[boot-leg] / ˈbutˌlɛg /


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Retatrutide is so effective that a gray market for bootleg versions of the drug, which hasn’t been approved for sale, has been thriving for more than two years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025

Various deluxe editions also come with bootleg recordings from a 1975 concert, concert films on Blu-ray, a hardcover book with never-seen photographs, a comic-book tour poster and more.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025

In between the tribute bands and memorabilia vendors, one of the big attractions was screenings of various rare or bootleg film footage, screened in cavernous hotel ballrooms.

From Salon • Nov. 25, 2025

Playing himself, the filmmaker drives a cab around Tehran engaging with a variety of passengers: a bootleg DVD seller, an injured man and his distraught wife, two elderly women in a rush.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2025

Bolo was friends with this white kid and fellow pirate named Daniel, who traded in bootleg CDs.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah




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