Synonyms for bootleg
| Grammar : Adj |
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| Phonetic Transcription : ˈbutˌlɛg |
Top 10 synonyms for bootleg
Définition of bootleg
Origin :- "leg of a boot," 1630s, from boot (n.1) + leg (n.). As an adjective in reference to illegal iquor, 1889, American English slang, from the trick of concealing a flask of liquor down the leg of a high boot. Before that the bootleg was the place to secret knives and pistols.
- adj illegal
- Then it was that he slipped a card in the bootleg of Roche again.
- Extract from : « Young Wild West at "Forbidden Pass" » by An Old Scout
- Then Artie took possession of the map placed in the bootleg.
- Extract from : « An Undivided Union » by Oliver Optic
- It has been said that "a Wren will build in anything from a bootleg to a bomb-shell."
- Extract from : « Birds Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol 3. No 6, June 1898 » by Various
- Neither did he appear in public with a bowie knife down his bootleg.
- Extract from : « The Long Chance » by Peter B. Kyne
- I'll sneak around to you in the mornin', when I go t' fetch me can of bootleg.
- Extract from : « Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist » by Alexander Berkman
- They were none too rapid, as Jeff left a piece of one bootleg in the Monarch's possession.
- Extract from : « Bears I Have Met--and Others » by Allen Kelly
- I was very thirsty at breakfast time and inadvertently drank some bootleg.
- Extract from : « Within Prison Walls » by Thomas Mott Osborne
- I believe that I have eaten something or other, although I am sure I have not sampled the bootleg.
- Extract from : « Within Prison Walls » by Thomas Mott Osborne
- He carried his calomel about with him in a fruit jar, and when there was cutting job he stropped his scalpel on his bootleg.
- Extract from : « "Speaking of Operations--" » by Irvin S. Cobb
- Me bettee you hundled dollee you gottee um jack of hearts in you bootleg, so be!
- Extract from : « Young Wild West at "Forbidden Pass" » by An Old Scout
Antonyms for bootleg
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