Bootleg

Bootleg or bootlegging

• Bootleg (radio), also known as pirate radio
• Bootleg mining, a mining practice involving small, illegal mines
• Bootleg play, a tactic in American football
• Bootleg turn, a driving maneuver
• Bootleg pants or Bell-bottoms, trousers which flare out at the bottom of the legs to allow room for large boots
• Bootlegging (business), secret innovation within an organization
• Bootlegging, a slang term to describe the illegal operation of a speeder on a railway
• Rum-running (smuggling liquor)
• Smuggling more generally

The term bootlegger is used for a special type of 1920 to 1930s raceboat used for rum-running during Prohibition.