The word "bootleg" is a valid English word, and is usually used to refer to illicit or illegally obtained items, like unauthorized copies of copyrighted material or items smuggled in or out of a location.
For example, "The police confiscated a large number of bootleg DVDs from the store."
The tuna were processed in the palace precincts, with bootleg fish butchered in the church next door.
Recordings included: a cat purring in Brooklyn; office banter in Kosovo; 10-pin bowling in Cardiff; square dancing in Berlin; a steam train in Australia; two lads from Yorkshire talking on helium; clarinet practising in Ayrshire; the sound of the Dutch coast; the dawn chorus in Sefton; doing the laundry in Bangkok; a bootleg clip of a concert in Brighton; and swearing from a traffic jam on the M6.
Measured against Ruth, who enjoyed the limelight, fast women, fat cigars and bootleg liquor, he was a nice but dull fellow.Other players invited good-time girls to see them play.
But most of the songs they played were secret recordings from live concerts which came on bootleg cassettes.
A few years ago most bootleg tobacco was duty-free produce that had been legally on sale somewhere, hawked in Britain for a profit.
His friends sell bootleg CDs, freshly burned on their computers.
A VIDEO of masked gunmen released to al-Jazeera, the region's most influential satellite television channel; a bootleg DVD featuring burnt-out humvees set to religious chanting; a claim of responsibility for an attack posted on one of the internet's ever-migrating Islamist websites.
Uncensored bootleg copies are peddled on the streets.
That experiment not copied in any other big country—inflated alcohol prices, promoted bootleg suppliers, encouraged the spread of guns and crime, increased hard-liquor drinking and corrupted a quarter of the federal enforcement agents, all within a decade.
Good hotels in Lagos still charge astronomical rates, building sites are crowded and vendors throng the city streets as ever; bootleg DVDs of Barack Obama's inauguration are particularly popular.In this section Next machetes, then machineguns?
People used to buy bootleg CDs and Japanese imports containing music that none of their friends could get hold of.
