- present participle of bootleg.
bootlegging
Example Sentences
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With four simple words, a sport that was born out of bootlegging, good ole boys and fast cars graduated from a regional sideshow to a national spectacle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2023
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
By 1987, bootlegging caused tax revenues to fall by some 100 billion rubles.
From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2022
Tribes across Alaska have courts that decide child protection, adoption cases, bootlegging and other cases, but their power over non-members is limited.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2022
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
