bootleg

For many children living in remote towns across the Peruvian Andes, movies only exist in the form of bootleg DVDs — Hollywood films dubbed in Spanish or in English with Spanish subtitles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026

One single bootleg upload by independent journalist Matthew Keys amassed well over 600,000 views in a matter of hours.

From Salon ● May 27, 2026

Morris: If someone calls me “a bootleg Eddie Murphy,” I’m retiring.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026

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

After dinner, Mom opens my bedroom door as I’m perusing the bootleg math exam.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

If you didn’t tape a copy off of your local FM station, it wasn’t hard to find somebody that did, and it became one of the first commercial R.E.M. bootlegs.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

Patrick Mahomes is coming off knee surgery, and Andy Reid will need to scheme around what he can’t do yet, mainly moving out of the pocket on bootlegs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

His strengths are his mobility, being able to throw on the run, and finding different arm angles to make the pass when he rolls out of the pocket, the bootlegs.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2025

Stream much of Season 1 to 5 free on Pluto; bootlegs of individual episodes are easy to find online.

From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2023

The trousers were checkered, of ash-gray color, and his sapogi had short, unblacked military bootlegs.

From Stories by Foreign Authors: Russian by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

My TV habit included rental-store tapes of bootlegged movies and shows dubbed from American TV.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025

One of the world's most bootlegged recordings - Fatboy Slim's Satisfaction Skank - is finally being released, after the Rolling Stones gave belated approval for the song's pivotal sample.

From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025

In the salons I went to as a child, I remember men peddling bootlegged movies and fashions to the clients with their hair wrapped or freshly sheened as they dug for cash in their purses.

From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2023

Atlanta’s young quarterback, Desmond Ridder, bootlegged for a 6-yard touchdown on fourth-and-4 with just under 12 minutes remaining.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 17, 2023

There is an ancient-looking air conditioner hanging on to the ledge of the bootlegged window, and the glass above the machine has been covered with a piece of decorative cloth.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan

Ryan Coogler’s bootlegging, Southern vampire blockbuster is smart, ambitious, original and masterfully executed — a classic best picture contender.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025

Mr. Rapp, the prosecutor, said that Mr. Bout’s conviction had been a little like that of Al Capone, the Chicago mobster who was eventually jailed for tax evasion — not murder or bootlegging or racketeering.

From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2022

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

The Premier League has previously pursued legal action against Saudi links to the bootlegging of its match broadcasts, whose rights are owned by Qatar’s beIN Sports.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 30, 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