smuggler
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3.8
- noun
- /ˈsmʌɡlər/
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contrabandista
- The police arrested a smuggler who was trying to bring illegal goods across the border.
- drug smugglers
- smugglers and traffickers
- smugglers called coyotes
I've got Danny, Hell's Kitchen, cocaine smuggler, smuggled cocaine underwater.
- I've got Danny, Hell's Kitchen, cocaine smuggler, smuggled cocaine underwater.
- Bad news for smugglers who hide cocaine in their cheeks.
- And he slashed tax on tea and put the smugglers out of business.
- So you're one of the most prolific drug smugglers in the world.
- It was a tough day for the smuggler, but a career day for the drug sniffing dogs.
- When I asked him what those were from, he explained that he refused to carry drugs for a a smuggler and they tied him up and whipped him for it.
- His name was Brian O'Day and he wrote a book called High Life of an International drug smuggler.
- But I wanted to impress him, you know, because I wanted the next job and you know, I wanted to be this successful drug smuggler.
- Well, somebody who is who's also a drug smuggler is Barry Seal.
- They're like hunting terrorists and like smugglers and I don't know what else, but like property.
- They were the smugglers and the collaborators, and they lived a very good life.
- Whereas the federal inmate during that period of time was more of a white collar smuggler, you know?
Examples
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We surprised a band of smugglers.
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Most refugees enter Europe illegally, which requires paying smugglers and sometimes obtaining fake documents.
Academic text (2009) -
And then the smuggler found out that I got someone helping me.
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Joe, he was a big drug smuggler.
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I was down in in Tijuana and I found a human smuggler there.
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This man was a world-class smuggler here.
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The river turned into a highway of light, and the smuggler followed it upstream.
Fiction book (1991) -
So you're one of the most prolific drug smugglers in the world.
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They were the smugglers and the collaborators, and they lived a very good life.
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He's a smuggler.
Synonyms
62
8.0
A person who illegally buys and sells goods or people
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8.3
A person who brings goods into a country without paying customs
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8.2
A person who illegally brings and sells guns across borders
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9.9
A person who secretly brings alcohol into a country to avoid the law
A person who moves goods across a border illegally, often to avoid taxes
A person who secretly brings goods into or out of a country to avoid paying taxes
A person who illegally moves guns across a border to sell them
How Illegal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Smuggler comes from an old Dutch or German word that meant 'to sneak' or 'to hide'. So a smuggler is someone who moves goods in secret to avoid the law or taxes.