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Bootlegging - Definition and Overview

Bootlegging is the illegal sale or manufacture of cigarettes, liquor, and other consumer goods (such as compact discs or DVDs) subject to taxes for the purposes of evading those taxes, or licensing fees. In the prohibition of the 1920s, Al Capone and other gangsters were major bootleggers of liquor.

See also: parallel importation, bootleg


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Example Usage of Bootlegging
ryantoddrose: overheard at the office: "it's not piracy, it just Bootlegging"
m_a_s_o_n: Bootlegging stupid 70s tracks and probably throw it away at the end of the day is perhaps the best way to spend a rainy hungover monday
DLOCSTAH904: @SHAYRHETT ...LOL SEE I WAS AT DA MOVIE SUPPORTING...LOL BLACK PEOPLE ALWAYS Bootlegging
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