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[boot-leg] / ˈbutˌlɛg /


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The suppliers are also competing with companies when it comes to Food and Drug Administration-approved peptide-based drugs peddling bootleg versions of weight-loss GLP-1s at much lower prices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

But the efforts barely make a dent in the bootleg market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

One single bootleg upload by independent journalist Matthew Keys amassed well over 600,000 views in a matter of hours.

From Salon ● May 27, 2026

Morris: If someone calls me “a bootleg Eddie Murphy,” I’m retiring.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026

Bolo was friends with this white kid and fellow pirate named Daniel, who traded in bootleg CDs.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah

If you didn’t tape a copy off of your local FM station, it wasn’t hard to find somebody that did, and it became one of the first commercial R.E.M. bootlegs.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

Patrick Mahomes is coming off knee surgery, and Andy Reid will need to scheme around what he can’t do yet, mainly moving out of the pocket on bootlegs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

And presumably, he can print some crazy, one-off Deep Purple bootlegs just for himself?

From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2023

But the Cougars’ contemporary system will include a healthy dose of run-pass options and play-action bootlegs.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2022

They wore broad Panama hats, flannel shirts, with no coats or vests, and strong duck trousers thrust into their bootlegs.

From The Land of Mystery by Edward Sylvester Ellis

My TV habit included rental-store tapes of bootlegged movies and shows dubbed from American TV.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025

Hildebrandt said that a decade ago, dental students in her classes “were basically giving each other thumb drives with bootlegged copies of the head and neck.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2024

Atlanta’s young quarterback, Desmond Ridder, bootlegged for a 6-yard touchdown on fourth-and-4 with just under 12 minutes remaining.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 17, 2023

Call it the sheet music equivalent of a bootlegged mixtape.

From New York Times ● Sep. 13, 2022

There is an ancient-looking air conditioner hanging on to the ledge of the bootlegged window, and the glass above the machine has been covered with a piece of decorative cloth.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan

Ryan Coogler’s bootlegging, Southern vampire blockbuster is smart, ambitious, original and masterfully executed — a classic best picture contender.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025

To combat the bootlegging, his team chose to persuade major retailers to buy scrunchies from them rather than seek damages through litigation.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 19, 2022

By 1987, bootlegging caused tax revenues to fall by some 100 billion rubles.

From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2022

The Premier League has previously pursued legal action against Saudi links to the bootlegging of its match broadcasts, whose rights are owned by Qatar’s beIN Sports.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 30, 2020

“What could be more dangerous than a fake quarantine and a town-sponsored bootlegging operation?”

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool




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