Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who smuggles; one who imports or exports secretly and contrary to law either contraband goods or dutiable goods without paying the customs; also, in Scotland, an illicit distiller.
- noun A vessel employed in smuggling goods.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who smuggles.
- noun A vessel employed in smuggling.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
smuggles things. - noun A vessel employed in smuggling.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who imports or exports without paying duties
Etymologies
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Examples
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I spread my cloak upon a builder's stone, and made her sit there; she would have kept her hold upon me, for she still shook with the late affronts; but I wanted to think clear, disengaged myself, and paced to and fro before her, in the manner of what we call a smuggler's walk, belabouring my brains for any remedy.
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I spread my cloak upon a builder's stone, and made her sit there; she would have kept her hold upon me, for she still shook with the late affronts; but I wanted to think clear, disengaged myself, and paced to and fro before her, in the manner of what we call a smuggler's walk, belabouring my brains for any remedy.
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I spread my cloak upon a builder's stone, and made her sit there; she would have kept her hold upon me, for she still shook with the late affronts; but I wanted to think clear, disengaged myself, and paced to and fro before her, in the manner of what we call a smuggler's walk, belabouring my brains for any remedy.
Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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He also pardoned the head of Occidental Petroleum after that man made large contributions to the RNC and sent a convicted heroin smuggler back to Afganistan in the middle of the night before he left the Whitehouse.
Think Progress » Bush Falsely Claims Consistency on Leak Investigation 2005
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The word smuggler arouses in the mind the figure of a bold and desperate mariner searching the coast for a signal that all is safe to land his cargo.
Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas
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I hope you will realize that the French smuggler is responsible for what I may ever say or do in Toronto.
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The objective of the Latin American smuggler is to get as much tonnage as possible from Colombia, Peru and Bolivia to the lucrative American market and avoid interdictions by authorities along the way.
Stratfor - 2009
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A U.S. official said the strike had killed Abu Ghadiy, whom he identified as a smuggler of fighters to al Qaeda in Iraq.
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a nuclear smuggler is made a “major non-NATO ally”
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » How to Spot a Dictatorship 2005
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They tell the kids to say the smuggler is a relative otherwise risk deportation.
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