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boot-leg, bootleg|ˈbuːtlɛg|
[boot n.3 7.]
1. The leg of a tall boot, or the leather, etc., cut out for this (see also quot. 1875).
1634Churchw. Accts. Youlgrave, Derby in Reliquary Jan. (1864) 190 For a payre of Boot-legges needfull to be used about y⊇ bells. 1843Knickerbocker XXI. 523 A pair of linsey-woolsey breeches plunged into his boot-legs. 1855M. M. Thomson Doesticks xxi. 181 The man who would..hopefully essay the concoction of a satisfactory stew from jack-knife-handles and bootlegs. 1875W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. 20 Boot-legs, short gaiters, not reaching to the knee. 1889‘C. E. Craddock’ Broomsedge Cove iv. 65 He..paused only to slip into his long boot-leg a ‘shootin' iron’.
2. attrib.
a. With reference to illicit trading in liquor. Also ellipt. Cf. boot-legger. orig. U.S.
a1889Omaha Herald (Barrère & Leland), There is as much whisky consumed in Iowa now as there was before,..‘for medical purposes only’, and on the boot-leg plan. 1921W. D. Newton in Chambers's Jrnl. Mar. 154/2 Joe left him apparently sleeping the solid sleep of ‘bootleg’ whisky in his shack. 1928H. Crane Let. 31 Jan. (1965) 315 Gradually I'm becoming acquainted with all the brands of bootleg that the Westcoast offers. 1929Morn. Post 7 June 11/2 Alleged bootleg ring. 1931E. Linklater Juan in America ii. ii. 70 She'll get nothing but bootleg rye and bath-tub gin..after this.
b. Of other commodities, persons, etc.
1928Daily Express 5 Mar. 11/6 Bootleg [i.e. smuggled] baby. 1929Variety 10 Apr. 1/2 There is almost as big a market for bootleg disk records as there is for bootlegged books. 1931Daily Express 15 Oct. 11/2 A ‘bootleg’ house is one which has been erected in defiance of the Building Act. 1944M. Laski Love on Supertax vii. 72 The occasional bootleg lemon. Ibid. ix. 84, I can't eat, said Clarissa, pushing away her bootleg egg.
Hence ˈboot-legger, one who carries liquor in his boot-legs; hence, an illicit trader in liquor; ˈboot-legging, illicit trade in liquor; also attrib. and ppl. a.; whence ˈbootleg v., to traffic illicitly in (liquor); ˈbootlegged ppl. a., illicit, smuggled; also transf.
1889Sanger Rep. in J. B. Thoburn Hist. Oklahoma (1916) I. 223 Liquor dealers (or as they are called here ‘boot-leggers’). 1890Voice (N.Y.) July 17 The ‘boot-legger’ is a grim spectre to the anti-Prohibitionist... He is a man who wears boots in whose tops are concealed a flask or two of liquor. 1903Cincinnati Enquirer 3 Jan. 1/3 In the pulpit was a minister when arrested for ‘boot⁓legging’. 1906in Dialect Notes III. 127 William Castell, charged with bootlegging whiskey, was tried..this morning. 1919T. K. Holmes Man fr. Tall Timber vi. 59 Who's got the forty-rod, Steve?.. There's a bootlegging place somewhere, I'll be bound. 1922S. Lewis Babbitt v. 66 The bright lights and the bootlegged cocktails. 1927‘Sax Rohmer’ Moon of Madness 14 A deck load of Dagos..that would have frightened a Chicago bootlegger. 1928Observer 5 Feb. 18/2 Negroes who carried bootlegged liquor. Ibid., The result is that books are bootlegged in Boston as liquor is bootlegged in other cities. 1928Daily Express 5 Mar. 11/6 She ‘bootlegged’ a baby into her home and..pretended to her husband that it was hers. 1936Wodehouse Laughing Gas vii. 76 Somebody is bootlegging it [sc. candy] to him, and I mean to find out who it is. 1948Chicago Tribune 28 Nov. 41/5 The sale of liquor is banned here on the Sabbath, and that's when the bootlegger bootlegs. 1958Manch. Guardian Weekly 1 May 6/1 Customs officers..regarded it as no business of theirs to prevent the ‘boot-legging’ of the long-play records imported privately in thousands.
Add:[1.] b. A gramophone record or tape prepared without authorization: see sense *2 b below.
1951Record Changer Nov. 1 (heading) Victor presses bootlegs! 1971It 2–16 June 18/1 This album of the Experience recorded at the Albert Hall in '69 is not a bootleg (although there's an inferior bootleg in mono selling at the same price), it's an official German release. 1979Sounds 28 Apr. 52/2 I'd like to know where..the customer..stands. Can I get into trouble with the law for buying bootlegs? 1989Rolling Stone 5 Oct. 16/2 Jon Bon Jovi..left Moscow with caviar, watches, paintings, a Red Army coat, a bootleg of Elvis Presley hits and a new attitude.
[2.] [b.] Also, spec. of gramophone records and tapes prepared and distributed without authorization. (Further examples.)
1951Record Changer Nov. 1 He apparently has encountered no difficulty in persuading Victor to process and press..four bootleg reissues of jazz classics. 1973Telegraph (Brisbane) 27 Feb. 15/5 Bootleg records either can be re-pressed from legitimate records; taken from unauthorised recordings of live performances; or pressed from tapes stolen from recording studios. 1985S. Booth True Adventures Rolling Stones xxiii. 238 How do bootleg records get around?
Sense 2 in Dict. becomes 3. Add: 2. Amer. Football. A play in which the ball-carrier pretends to hand the ball to a team-mate but continues to carry it, concealing it from opposing players by holding it near his hip. Freq. attrib. Cf. *bootleg v.
[1945Time 3 Dec. 72/2 His favorite play is the ‘bootlegger’: Waterfield simply fakes to other backs, then pulls some fast sleight-of-hand and swings out around end, literally hiding the ball behind his back.] 1949P. Cummings Dict. Sports 44/1 Bootleg play,..a play where the ball-carrier fakes giving it to a teammate, then conceals it behind his hip, and runs in a different direction from that indicated by the player who faked receiving it. 1958Sports Illustr. 6 Oct. 51/2 I've never been able to run a bootleg against Andy Robustelli. 1960Blaik & Cohane You have to pay Price xix. 361 He also scored our other marker on a 24-yard bootleg run. 1990Pittsburgh Post-Gaz. 1 Jan. 30/1 We were using that running play to set up a bootleg to the other side on the next play. |