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bootlegging

/boot-leg/US // ˈbutˌlɛg //UK // (ˈbuːtˌlɛɡ) //

盗版,盗版行为,盗卖,盗版活动

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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    • : alcoholic liquor unlawfully made, sold, or transported, without registration or payment of taxes.
    • : the part of a boot that covers the leg.
    • : something, as a recording, made, reproduced, or sold illegally or without authorization: a flurry of bootlegs to cash in on the rock star's death.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    boot·legged, boot·leg·ging.

    • : to deal in unlawfully.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    boot·legged, boot·leg·ging.

    • : to make, transport, or sell something, especially liquor, illegally or without registration or payment of taxes.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : made, sold, or transported unlawfully.
    • : illegal or clandestine.
    • : of or relating to bootlegging.

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Examples

  • The bootleg meeting’s final speaker was Geoffrey Hinton of the University of Toronto, the cognitive psychologist and computer scientist responsible for some of the biggest breakthroughs in deep nets.

  • For a private event, copyright owners are unlikely to notice or shut everything down mid-event, but don’t use the tips in this article to broadcast a bootleg concert to thousands of people.

  • He says this routinely resulted in a handful of patients being held for days in a crowded ER “overflow” area with no beds or privacy — just chairs and a single bathroom — serving as a sort of “bootleg inpatient psychiatric unit.”

  • But he'd been trailing McFann for bootlegging and was pretty sure Jim was riding a horse with a broken shoe.

  • To be sure, he charged them off heavily, so there was little cash left from the half-breed's bootlegging operations.

  • Talpers had profited most by the bootlegging operations carried on by the pair, though Jim had done most of the dangerous work.

  • It made us fear that perhaps some of his bootlegging yarns had been colored with the ready fiction of his business.

  • They hear of bootlegging and blind tigers among certain foreign groups.