"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.
例文
1. The record was a bootleg .
このレコードは海賊版です。
2.Mr.Hong was more than a simple distributor of bootleg software.
洪磊は簡単な海賊版ソフトウェア販売者ではない。
3.Some students were arrested for selling bootleg recordings on the Internet.
インターネットで海賊版を販売したとして逮捕された学生もいる。
4. Goods ( especially alcohol ) are bootlegged when they aresmuggled or manufactured and sold illegally.
bootleg は、不正に貨物(特に酒)を輸送、製造、販売することを指す。
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