bootleg

Example Sentences

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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

Al Capone was at the top of the crime world until the feds nabbed him, not for his bootlegging schemes or the gangland murders he ordered, but for tax evasion.

From Seattle Times

In 2009, a new version of the demo, without the background noise, was released on a bootleg CD.

From BBC

Revelers dressed in khakis and pinstriped suits could buy bonded whisky and bootleg corn whisky, and men and women danced to jump blues and mingled on the ballroom floor.

From New York Times

A decent friend also wouldn't buddy around with a friend's ex accused of being — to use one of Schwartz's favorite insults — a bootleg Harvey Weinstein.

From Salon