smuggled
- adjective
- /ˈsmʌɡəld/
- NSFW
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de contrabando
- The authorities discovered a shipment of cigarettes that had been smuggled into the country to avoid taxes.
I've got Danny, Hell's Kitchen, cocaine smuggler, smuggled cocaine underwater.
- I've got Danny, Hell's Kitchen, cocaine smuggler, smuggled cocaine underwater.
- Human connection in prison is somehow a smuggled good.
Examples
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They did a show where it was all artifacts smuggled in from Syria, like from Syrian refugees.
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So what happens if a small yield nuclear weapon goes off in Kiev that was smuggled there in a briefcase through Belarus?
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Some say that she was killed by a snake that was smuggled inside a basket of figs.
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And these were smuggled out movies that were made of what was going on in these camps in Poland right before the end of the war.
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I saw Bristol, we were trying to get a gun smuggled into court and we'd found a thing made I bet we could get it in a weak link.
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You can see it here, the remnants of the old palace there smuggled in in Old Palace Yard with a big palace, then big new palace rising up around it.
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He wrote it on the margins of newspapers and had the had it smuggled out and then, you know, composed later and reprinted.
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I gave him leave to live, lest gratitude revive the snake thought, though smuggled my reprieve.
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I lived on the edge and I've yeah, I've ducked and dived and and all sorts of things smuggled in unusual ways.
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And very shortly you'll hear smuggled explosions as the methanol vapor catches fire.
Synonyms
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4.8
Sold or traded secretly because it is against the law
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Items people sell or bring into a country illegally
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Sold illegally without official permission
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Morphology
Etymology
Smuggled comes from an old Dutch word smokkelen, which meant 'to sneak in'. Think of people hiding goods on ships or in luggage to avoid taxes, so smuggled still means 'brought in or moved in secret' to avoid rules.