woke up this morning and found myself dead . 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. 6 what is the origin of 'bootleg' ('bootlegger', 'bootlegging'), in the general sense of illicit trade in liquor (oed)? The philosopher gaston bachelard called them les chemins du désir (pathways of desire), so that's one possible origin of the term. Actually fanboy might start earlier than that, but that's the basic idea.
12 they are called desire paths (also desire lines, social trails, goat tracks, bootleg trails, or intention lines). 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. 0 a snapdragon is neither a snap nor a dragon a cocktail is neither a cock nor a tail a carpet is neither a car nor a pet (not really a compound noun, so may not qualify) bootleg is neither a boot nor a leg (not a noun, but an adjective as in bootleg whisky) have to stop or i will become obsessed with this. Before world war ii the word holocaust referred most often to a huge inferno. A desire path (often referred to as a desire line in transportation planning), also known as a game trail, social trail, fishermen trail, herd path, cow path, elephant path, buffalo trace, goat track, pig trail, use trail and bootleg trail, is an unplanned small trail created as a consequence of mechanical erosion caused by human or animal traffic
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The other is the title song from a bootleg album by jimi hendrix: I've always assumed it meant hungover or otherwise ailing, but i'm not sure. The path usually represents the shortest or most easily navigated route between an origin and destination. The online etymology dictionary gives one possible origin, from 1889: