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Definition of Bootlegging
1. Noun. The act of making or transporting alcoholic liquor for sale illegally. "The Prohibition amendment made bootlegging profitable"
2. Noun. The act of selling illegally or without permission. "The bootlegging of videotapes is common in Asia"
Definition of Bootlegging
1. Verb. (present participle of bootleg) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bootlegging
1. bootleg [v] - See also: bootleg
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bootlegging
Literary usage of Bootlegging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Russian Organized Crime in the United States: Hearing Before the Permanent by DIANE Publishing Company (1998)
"Your testimony mentioned that bootlegging of motor fuel over State lines continues
... The other way of bootlegging we have found is to move the gasoline or ..."
2. Reducing the Health Consequences of Smoking: 25 Years of Progress: A Report by DIANE Publishing Company, C. Everett Koop, M.D. (1995)
"The law enforcement problems stemming from organized interstate cigarette
bootlegging were also a factor in the deceleration of State tax increases in ..."
3. Western Canada by Paul-Eric Dumontier, Jennifer McMorran, Pierre Longnus (2004)
"30000), a former bootlegging capital during US prohibition years, sprouts up in
the flatlands west of Regina and offers visitors a glimpse into little-known ..."
4. Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of Washington by Washington (State). Supreme Court, Arthur Remington, Solon Dickerson Williams (1921)
"The fact that Laws of 1917, £ 17h, declares the offense of bootlegging to be a
felony, ... Upon a prosecution for bootlegging, under Laws of 1917, S 17h, ..."
5. Preliminary Economic Studies of the War by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Division of Economics and History, Thomas Nixon Carver (1919)
"Five actual bootlegging instances were seen in which three saloons and one grocery
and liquor store figured. . All sailors who were interviewed admitted ..."
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