to smuggle
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3.9
- verb
- /ˈsmʌɡəl/
- NSFW
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- Her parents were well-off, and they had succeeded in smuggling a large part of their fortune into Germany.
- smuggle weapons
- smuggle goods
- smuggle drugs
So it's, it's meant to look like you're smuggling a budgie in the Speedo.
- So it's, it's meant to look like you're smuggling a budgie in the Speedo.
- I mean, yeah, we, we smuggled sweets into school.
- OK, where else did you smuggle marijuana into other than the US?
- What I say, what do you think is the easiest to smuggle drugs, the easiest way?
- So we know that's what Harry does is that he smuggles liquor into the United States.
- I think he is smuggling something in his Underground Railroad.
- But until then, he's just over there and he's too big to smuggle back.
- And next time I'll try and smuggle a few of you in with me because it was good.
- Or you're arriving from the Middle East, he'll smuggle you in, make sure you're set up and get you on the payroll.
- And some of them, the cartels get to some of them and they get those people to smuggle drugs.
- They are trying to smuggle all those things in at the moment behind the first shield.
- Anyway, his escape classification meant he had to go in there, gun smuggled into prison.
- Was Newegg smuggling GPUs across the border for mining operations Yet to be proven?
Examples
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So I have tried to now smuggle A forbidden object through a military port.
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We were undocumented aliens smuggled off in a cargo container to work in the kitchen.
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But I used to smuggle drugs and weapons in.
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So you get to smuggle in some additional stuff along the way.
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I need you to smuggle this across the border for me.
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So we used this guy to smuggle my dad out to Spain.
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You can buy my freedom and smuggle me out of Rome?
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Up to 100,000 Chinese aliens are smuggled into the United States each year.
Academic text (1995) -
Full of Grace dramatically depicts young Colombian women who attempt to smuggle cocaine into the U.S.
Academic text (2008) -
The detective discovered that the gang was planning to smuggle rare antiques across the border.
Synonyms
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8.6
To secretly move illegal goods from one place to another
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2.8
To move or take something quietly so others do not notice
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8.1
To buy or sell illegal goods
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9.3
To secretly carry goods for someone, often illegal items
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9.9
To secretly move people or things out of an area controlled by enemies
Antonyms
How Illegal
Surface Forms
Etymology
Smuggle probably comes from an old Dutch or German verb like smokkelen, which meant 'to move in secret' or 'to slip through a small opening'. So to smuggle now is to secretly and illegally move goods or people, like hiding them and slipping them through a hidden gap.