runner
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8.3
- noun
- /ˈrʌnər/
:
contrabandista
- As a runner, she smuggled goods across the border to avoid customs duties.
- drug runner
Like, you know, the and the, you know, they're not drug dealers, they're gun runners.
- Like, you know, the and the, you know, they're not drug dealers, they're gun runners.
- But I remember when I read that story, which is is about this drug runner, Andrew Thornton, who opens our film dropping these drugs out of this airplane.
Examples
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This guy's a drug runner.
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- But you are a blockade runner? - For profit, and profit only.
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The drug runners probably set this up.
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How does someone like you get involved with one of the biggest - drug runners in the city?
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I had pizza once as a kid, now I'm a gun runner for the mob.
Blog text (15) -
She said she was a dope runner for Jack Ruby.
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Two days later, the Advance, a blockade-runner flying the colors of the South, entered the harbor.
Fiction book (1998) -
We've got indicators he's a runner for the Sinaloa cartel.
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The police arrested him because he was a runner for a drug trafficking organization.
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The authorities are cracking down on runners who bypass legal importation processes.
Synonyms
89
3.8
A person who secretly moves goods across borders to avoid paying tax
62
8.0
A person who illegally buys and sells goods or people
1
7.5
A person who secretly sells scarce or controlled goods for money
A person who secretly brings goods into or out of a country to avoid paying taxes
A person who moves goods across a border illegally, often to avoid taxes
Compounds
- Archaic
1
9.9
A member of London's first organized police force from the mid 1700s to the early 1800s
A large, fast tropical fish with a blue green back and yellow stripes that people catch for sport
- Australian
A low-growing Australian vine with hairy stems and bright red and pink flowers
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Runner comes from the old word run plus the ending -er meaning 'one who'. A helpful way to remember the smuggler sense is that they 'run' goods across borders, so a runner became someone who moves goods secretly to avoid duties or the law.