bootleg ground

English

Etymology

From bootleg (“fake”) +‎ ground (“earthing”).

Noun

bootleg ground (plural bootleg grounds)

1. (US) A type of false ground (earth) in electrical circuits, created by wiring the grounding circuit (green wire, bare copper wire) to the neutral circuit (cold wire, white wire).

Hypernyms

• false ground

Translations

Translations

• German: die klassische Nullung