booklegging

noun
/ˈbʊk.lɛɡ.ɪŋ/US

Etymology

Blend of book + bootlegging, by analogy with bootlegging.

Definitions

  1. 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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