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smuggler

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smug·gle  (smgl)
v. smug·gled, smug·gling, smug·gles
v.tr.
1. To import or export without paying lawful customs charges or duties.
2. To bring in or take out illicitly or by stealth.
v.intr.
To engage in smuggling.

[Probably Low German smukkeln, smuggeln or Middle Dutch smokkelen.]

smuggler n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.smugglersmuggler - someone who imports or exports without paying duties
coyote - someone who smuggles illegal immigrants into the United States (usually across the Mexican border)
criminal, crook, felon, malefactor, outlaw - someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
arms-runner, gunrunner - a smuggler of guns
rumrunner - someone who illegally smuggles liquor across a border

smuggler
noun trafficker, runner, bootlegger, moonshiner (U.S.), rum-runner, contrabandist drug smugglers
Translations
smuggler [ˈsmʌgləʳ] Ncontrabandista mf

smuggler [ˈsmʌgər] ncontrebandier/ière m/f

smuggler
nSchmuggler(in) m(f)

smuggler [ˈsmʌgləʳ] ncontrabbandiere/a
smuggler [ˈsmʌgləʳ] ncontrabbandiere/a

smuggler مهرب بضائع pašerák smugler Schmuggler λαθρέμπορος contrabandista salakuljettaja contrebandier krijumčar contrabbandiere 密輸業者 밀수업자 smokkelaar smugler przemytnik contrabandista контрабандист smugglare ผู้ลักลอบนำเข้า kaçakçı người buôn lậu 走私犯


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Would I take Scotty, the runaway sailor, to visit the harpooner, on the opium- smuggler Idler?
We have no foolish ideas about wealth, but comfort is another matter, and our daughter should at least marry a man who can give her that - and not a penniless adventurer, a sailor, a cowboy, a smuggler, and Heaven knows what else, who, in addition to everything, is hare- brained and irresponsible.
A certain portion of his time was passed at Cambridge, where he read with undergraduates as a sort of tolerated smuggler who drove a contraband trade in European languages, instead of conveying Greek and Latin through the Custom-house.
 
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