booklegging
noun/ˈbʊk.lɛɡ.ɪŋ/US
Etymology
Blend of book + bootlegging, by analogy with bootlegging.
Definitions
The illicit publication and distribution of banned books.
- I should like to suggest another term–booklegging.
- But the problem is more difficult in the case of booklegging, because you can only drink liquor once, but a book can be read by a hundred college boys, and will be, if it gets enough police-advertising.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for booklegging. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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