What is boot legging ?

Answer 1

Bootlegging is an informal term for smuggling, sale or transport of illicit goods. While it originally described the illegal transport and sale of alcoholic beverages on which excise taxes had not been paid (derived from a method of hiding alcohol in flasks in the shanks of a boot), it now refers more broadly to the transportation or sale of many types of pirated, counterfeit, black market, grey market or parallel import goods.

Answer 2

In simple terms, it means smuggling the intoxicating liquors into a country, where its sale is banned, illegally.
For its etymological history, please see the following:-

"Despite national Prohibition, many Chicagoans sought alcoholic beverages during the 1920s. To meet this demand, large organizations brewed beer and imported and distributed liquor; thousands of families manufactured bootleg, providing access to the decade's prosperity; and neighborhood “soft drink parlors” sold these illegal products. Bootlegging thus undermined the Prohibitionists' great social experiment. Official efforts to stop bootlegging were halfhearted, though supply restrictions meant bootleg booze was often of inferior quality. Competition over bootlegging markets turned so violent that gangs, alcohol, and crime became a permanent part of Chicago's reputation."

Answer 3

Definitions of bootlegging on the Web:

the act of making of transporting alcoholic liquor for sale illegally; "the Prohibition amendment made bootlegging profitable"
the act of selling illegally or without permission; "the bootlegging of video tapes is common in the Orient"
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Bootlegging is a slang term to describe smuggling (see Bootleg). Most commonly the word refers specificaly to the illegal sale of alcoholic beverages on which federal or state excise taxes have not been paid. The term is sometimes mistakenly used to refer to making untaxed alcoholic products; yet, that is "moonshining", not bootlegging. Most bootleg liquor is not "home-made" by a moonshiner but, instead, bottled by professional distillers.
Illegal manufacture, distribution, or sale of a product. The term originated in the USA, when the sale of alcohol to American Indians was illegal and bottles were hidden for sale in the legs of the jackboots of unscrupulous traders. The term was later used for all illegal liquor sales during the period of Prohibition in the USA 1919–33. More recently it has been applied to unauthorized commercial tape recordings and the copying of computer software

Answer 4

like take happy feet for example when you take a video recorder in there and tape the movie and then sell it to someone else that is bootlegging and if you do the same thing and bring to concerts and tape record or video record that and sell it. that is what boot legging is. Bigg Jimm is right too that is also called bootlegging.

Answer 5

it is illegally obtaining and then selling something. like movies, music, other forms of entertainment medias; a vcr, dvd player, tv, radio, ipod, microwave or something that was stolen and which is then sold to someone. Also alcohol was bootlegged back in the day (don't know the exact dates), and you could say drugs are bootlegged, i guess, but i believe the more appropriate term would be "smuggling". Both are illegal, anyway. basically something stolen and then sold for a profit is bootlegged.

Answer 6

That would be making your own home made brew, I do believe. Actually, the boot legging is maybe the selling of it. I think, at least in our state, it's still legal to make it, but not to sell it.

Homemade HOOTCH.

Answer 7

A good way to get rich and into politics.1920: Joseph P. Kennedy establishes contact with leading bootleggers and begins the illegal importation of liquor

Answer 8

What Is Bootlegging

Answer 9

Piracy.

Answer 10

Selling alcohol when you are not licensed to do so