SMUGGLE

smuggle

(verb) import or export without paying customs duties; “She smuggled cigarettes across the border”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

smuggle (third-person singular simple present smuggles, present participle smuggling, simple past and past participle smuggled)

(transitive, intransitive) To import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties

(transitive) To bring in surreptitiously

(transitive, obsolete) To fondle or cuddle.

(slang) To thrash or be thrashed by a bear's claws, or to swipe at or be swiped at by a person's arms in a bearlike manner.

Anagrams

• Muggles, muggles

Source: Wiktionary

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Smug"gle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Smuggled; p. pr. & vb. n. Smuggling.] Etym: [Of Low German or Scand. origin; cf. LG. smuggeln, D. smokkelen, G. schmuggeln, Dan. smugle, Sw. smyga to introduce or convey secretly, Dan. i smug secretly, D. smuigen to eat in secret, AS. smgan to creep. See Smock.]

1. To import or export secretly, contrary to the law; to import or export without paying the duties imposed by law; as, to smuggle lace.

2. Fig.: To convey or introduce clandestinely.

Smug"gle, v. i.

Definition: To import or export in violation of the customs laws.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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