bootleg

bootleg
 adj.— «I need to figure out what I want, achieve it, and be satisfied with it—for once. If it happens before the end of August, I won’t end this chapter thinking this was one bootleg summer.» —“I’m In Control, Just” by Rajan Blag Job July 29, 2001. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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