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bootleg

[′büt‚leg]

(mining engineering)

A hole, shaped somewhat like the leg of a boot, caused by a blast that has failed to shatter the rock properly.

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Similar corruption of Klan police officers, by bootleggers and speakeasy owners particularly, was common in areas controlled politically by the Klan, contributing to the disillusionment Moore describes with both Prohibition and the Klan.

"The Leo Frank Case Reconsidered: Gender and Sexual Politics in the Making of Reactionary Populism"

49 House No, 213 located in sector F-10/4 owned by notorious bootlegger Malik Saghar in limits of Shalimar police station.

Three wine sellers held

Billy Bootleggers gave away 300 free drinks on Sunday

Newcastle bar gives away 300 free drinks as England beat Panama 6-1; The city centre bar had promised to give away a free drink every time England scored in the World Cup so there were plenty of freebies on Sunday

The injured corporal claimed to prosecutors that five policemen were dispatched to Ras Al Khor to arrest the bootleggers.

4 bootleggers on trial over resisting arrest, assaulting 5 policemen

A Bootleggers and Baptists coalition favors the regulation of e-cigs.

Bootleggers, Baptists, and e-cigs: unlikely allies from the tobacco wars try to fight off a game-changer

Advaniji was staying in a hotel, which belongs to one of the biggest bootlegger who was in pasa in Gujarat.

Advani's visit to Daman and Gujarat has exposed BJP's double standards: Congress

Bootleggers, according to Yandle, are not as visible in the process as Baptists, but they are "no less vital." They "grease the political machinery with some of their expected proceeds.

Bootleggers, Baptists, and political entrepreneurs: key players in the rational game and morality play of regulatory politics

Bootleggers can even get death sentence under the new law.

Business as usual for hooch sellers of Gujarat

Post the hooch tragedy, the police rounded up 520 bootleggers in Ahmedabad city alone and around 69 from Ahmedabad rural.

Bootlegging an industry in Gujarat

Film moguls fear the cartoon family's big screen adventure will be taped by bootleggers and made into counterfeit copies.

HOMER DEVICES; Cinema staff to use military night sights to foil movie pirates

A FORMER snooker champion who became one of Scotland's biggest bootleggers has had his pounds 350,000 fortune frozen by the courts.

SNOOKERED; EXCLUSIVE Ex-champ Barry flies to Spain as court freezes his pounds 350,000 bootleg fortune

Hunter and Jen set off to find Mandy, expose the bootleggers, and track down rogue cool hunters who are underground and working against the client and all things cool.