Translate bootleg | into German | into Spanish Definition of bootleg
adjective
[attributive] (especially of liquor, computer software, or recordings) made, distributed, or sold illegally:bootleg cassettes bootleg whiskey
verb (bootlegs, bootlegging, bootlegged)
[with object] make, distribute, or sell (illicit goods, especially liquor, computer software, or recordings) illegally: (as noun bootlegging)domestic bootlegging was almost impossible to control (as adjective bootlegged)bootlegged videos
noun
1an illegal musical recording, especially one made at a concert.
2 Football a play in which the quarterback fakes a handoff and runs with the ball hidden next to his hip:he scored on a 29-yard bootleg on fourth down
