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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
smuggler
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a drug trafficker/smuggler (=someone involved in bringing drugs into a country)
▪ US efforts against drug traffickers
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
drug
▪ D.W. had come in over ocean and flown low as a drug smuggler over what might as well be called treetops.
▪ The prisoner is a convicted drug smuggler.
▪ Among the scores of witnesses called to testify was convicted drug smuggler George Morales.
▪ This I now of course understand, that everyone has to be careful of any drug smugglers.
▪ Most interesting was an interview with Mark Tolliver, a freelance pilot and convicted drug smuggler.
▪ The assumption that had the plane been carrying drug smugglers the shooting would have been justified is shocking.
Drug runner dies DRUG smuggler Lily Ehirobo died yesterday after 111 badly wrapped packets of cocaine worth £50,000 burst in her stomach.
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▪ Among the scores of witnesses called to testify was convicted drug smuggler George Morales.
▪ As night falls the houses light up one by one, and smugglers move stealthily about in the moonlight.
▪ Others said they agreed to pay the smuggler $ 40,000 from future earnings in the United States.
▪ The smugglers who regularly bring their booty ashore.
▪ The assumption that had the plane been carrying drug smugglers the shooting would have been justified is shocking.
▪ Then the gang bought Rotterdam Cottage in Talland Bay, a cove used by generations of smugglers.
▪ Within months, immigrants and their smuggler guides began shifting their routes east, into the mountains near Tecate.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Smuggler

Smuggler \Smug"gler\, n.

  1. One who smuggles.

  2. A vessel employed in smuggling.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
smuggler

1660s, from Low German smuggeln or Dutch smokkelen "to transport (goods) illegally," apparently a frequentative formation of a word meaning "to sneak" (from Proto-Germanic *smuganan; cognates: Dutch smuigen "to eat secretly;" Swedish smyg "a lurking-hole," Danish smughandel "contraband trade," Norwegian smjuga, Old English smeogan "to creep"), perhaps literally "to slip (contraband through)," from Proto-Germanic *(s)muk- (see smock).

Wiktionary
smuggler

n. 1 One who smuggles things. 2 A vessel employed in smuggling.

WordNet
smuggler

n. someone who imports or exports without paying duties [syn: runner, contrabandist, moon curser, moon-curser]

Wikipedia
Smuggler (comics)

Smuggler (Conrad Josten) is a fictional character in Marvel Comics as a superhero.

Smuggler (horse)

Smuggler (May 20, 2002 in Kentucky – April 16, 2015) was an American Champion Thoroughbred racing mare. She was a homebred owned by Ogden Mills Phipps and trained by U.S. Racing Hall of Fame trainer Claude "Shug" McGaughey. Smuggler had a very short and brief career on the race track but proved to be a Champion in that brief time. She had a record of 5 wins in 9 lifetime starts. Her biggest victories included wins in the (Grade 1) Mother Goose Stakes and (Grade 1) Coaching Club American Oaks, both at Belmont Park.

Smuggler's mother is the Hall of Fame Champion Thoroughbred Inside Information, and her sire was Champion Kentucky Derby winner Unbridled.

In 2005, Smuggler was awarded the Eclipse Award as Champion Three Year Old Filly. She was retired from racing in September 2006. She died on April 16, 2015 due to complications from foaling.

Smuggler (production company)

Smuggler is a film, TV, commercial, music video and theatre production company founded in 2002 by Patrick Milling Smith and Brian Carmody. It has been awarded ‘Production Company of the Year’ by several leading commercial industry magazines and award shows over the past few years, including 2010 by Creativity magazine and has been awarded the Palme d'Or three times (including most recently in 2015) at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival.

Smuggler works with directors Jaron Albertin, Brian Beletic, Adam Berg, Adrien Brody, Michael Clowater, Stephen Daldry, Jun Diaz, Filip Engstrom, Todd Field, Barry Flanagan, David Frankham, The Guard Brothers, Neil Harris, Tom Hooper (director), Miles Jay, Randy Krallman, James Marsh (director), Renny Maslow, Bennett Miller, Mark Molloy, Joshua Neale, Tristan Patterson, Jamie Rafn, Henry Alex Rubin, Guy Shelmerdine, Chris Smith, Stylewar, Sam Taylor-Johnson and Ivan Zacharias.

Smuggler (1996 film)

Smuggler is a 1996 Hindi-language Indian feature film directed by Ajay Kashyap and produced by B.S.Shaad, starring Dharmendra, Ayub Khan, Kareena Grover and Amrish Puri.

Smuggler (2011 film)

is a Japanese manga series by Shohei Manabe. It was adapted into a live action film in 2011.

Smuggler (disambiguation)

A smuggler is a person involved in the clandestine transportation of goods or persons.

Smuggler may also refer to:

Usage examples of "smuggler".

It worked, up until he tried to beat some Afghani smugglers at their own game.

I have taken passage on the vessels of a local smuggler, a man called Bayle Domon.

He plays the master-class game, backing smugglers like me, leveraged buyouts, corrupting politicians, software piracy, design piracyI bought the Sony flatscreen templates Event Horizon uses from him.

Like, say, take our friendly smuggler who usually drives a load of ephedrine pills, or kitchen cabinets, or flush toilets.

It was slave-stealer country, smuggler country, and as they worked their way by pirogue down Bayou des Familles to Little Barataria Bayou, and from there through the low mazes of the marshlands, January and Natchez Jim took turns sleeping, and never let their hands be far from their completely illegal guns.

He heard about the ports of Venezuela and Colombia and there was a long story about Guajira, the peninsula between the two countries where smugglers rule and where Indians still live the Indian life.

They are great friends of Jews and itinerants, hand-in-glove with smugglers, Ladies Bountiful to pedlers, are diligent readers of puffs and advertisements, and eternal haunters of sales and auctions.

Jessica glanced around the table, noted that Bewt had brightened, that both Kynes and the smuggler, Tuek, were grinning.

Between Looe and Troy, but much nearer to Looe, lies Talland Cove, a pretty recess of the coast much favoured in those days by smugglers as being lonely and well sheltered, with a nicely shelving beach on which, at almost any state of the tide, an ordinary small boat could be run and her cargo discharged with the greatest ease.

It was slow work, for he had but one hand free, but in their haste the smugglers had not tied the knot as firmly as they should, and before long Fenton Hardy had loosened it to such an extent that soon the ends of the rope fell away.

As none of Master Nathaniel measures brought to light a single smuggler or a single consignment of fairy fruit, the Senate were beginning to congratulate themselves on having at last destroyed the evil that for centuries had menaced their country, when Mumchance discovered in one day three people clearly under the influence of the mysterious drug and with their mouth and hands stained with strangely coloured juices.

If the smuggler had kept his word, they would all be safely away from Segg by now, instead of sitting here trapped, afraid of Red Guard and human soldiers alike.

Many thousands of dollars worth of goods have been smuggled, and the United States, as well as the Dominion of Canada custom authorities, say they are determined to put a stop to the daring efforts of the smugglers.

Even though he had been following the orders of his superior, even though Kim Jong Il himself had turned over use of his jet to the two smugglers, Rim Kun Soe had borne the brunt of the punishment.

So were the boarding parties sent to support Navy inspections of suspected slavers or smugglers.