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- etymology - What is the origin of bootleg? - English Language Usage . . .
6 What is the origin of 'bootleg' ('bootlegger', 'bootlegging'), in the general sense of "illicit trade in liquor" (OED)? The Online Etymology Dictionary gives one possible origin, from 1889: As an adjective in reference to illegal liquor, 1889, American English slang, from the trick of concealing a flask of liquor down the leg of a high boot
- word choice - In the Internet vs. on the Internet - English . . .
I suppose the large number of "in" prepositions in the phrase can be explained like this: in many languages, including Russian we use the preposition which can be translated into English as "in" So what people often do when they don't know what the correct way is - they "copy" exactly as it's told in their native language I guess the number of native speakers who use the Internet is much
- Slang term for black-market food during WW2
But the USA did not have food rationing So how can there have been a black market? There certainly was rationing and a black market in Britain I don't know if there was a name for such food - but the people who operated it were called "spivs"
- What is the meaning of the phrase to wake up dead
The other is the title song from a bootleg album by Jimi Hendrix: " Woke Up This Morning and Found Myself Dead " There are other references that I'm not familiar with but found by searching - a TV show "Woke Up Dead", for example
- meaning - How do the terms fanboy and fangirl differ from the . . .
A fanboy has all of their records (including those bootleg records and a few unreleased ones) and goes to all of their concerts, even if they are on a different continent Actually "fanboy" might start earlier than that, but that's the basic idea
- If a picture of a screen is a screenshot, what is a video of a screen?
I would call it a video screen capture The Wikipedia article screencast says: A screencast is a digital recording of computer screen output, also known as a video screen capture, often containing audio narration The term screencast compares with the related term screenshot; whereas a screenshot generates a single picture of a computer screen, a screencast is essentially a movie of the
- Can you use amok without run? How? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
1922 Bookman Mar 23 2 Both go morris-dancing amuck on a case of bootleg liquor 2003 B Klähn in K Stierstorfer Beyond Postmodernism 86 A sports-car pilot driving amok on a French coastal road
- What is the word for a path that is made naturally by the action of . . .
12 They are called desire paths (also desire lines, social trails, goat tracks, bootleg trails, or intention lines) The philosopher Gaston Bachelard called them les chemins du désir (pathways of desire), so that's one possible origin of the term
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