Crossword clues for smuggle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Smuggle \Smug"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Smuggled; p. pr. & vb. n. Smuggling.] [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. sm?gan to creep. See Smock.]
To import or export secretly, contrary to the law; to import or export without paying the duties imposed by law; as, to smuggle lace.
Fig.: To convey or introduce clandestinely.
Smuggle \Smug"gle\, v. i. To import or export in violation of the customs laws.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"import or export secretly and contrary to law," 1680s, of Low German or Dutch origin (see smuggler). Related: Smuggled; smuggling.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive intransitive English) To import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties 2 (context transitive English) To bring in surreptitiously 3 (context slang English) 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.
WordNet
v. import or export without paying customs duties; "She smuggled cigarettes across the border"
Usage examples of "smuggle".
If it had not been for the brave aid of a French farmer, dwelling across the river, who occasionally, on dark nights, smuggled scanty supplies to the beleaguered garrison, they would have been forced by starvation to a surrender.
Moscow official after breaking a crime ring that had been smuggling thousands of tons of illegal ozone-eating chlorofluorocarbons from former Soviet factories under the brand names of legal refrigerants.
Yes sir, they, my pappy and mammy, was just smuggled in dis part of de world, I bet you!
He also ran casinos, dog tracks, was involved in illicit trades on the stock market, owned diamond mines, smuggled opium and probably had a finger in every dodgy pie imaginable .
El Dorado forces using metal weapons, so some of the smuggling is getting through.
There was a report of a guard under suspension, accused of smuggling a case of Downer wine into Q.
Who could find it worth his while to smuggle an edenite armored sea-car in here?
Using a Canon T 70 with a 135mm lens, Fogle watched as the men donned white robes, bowed to pray, and then put on ear protectors to deaden the noise before firing weapons smuggled in from the Afghan front.
It had been no small achievement to have the cloth badges made, for such furbelows were a luxury in the war-straitened Confederacy, yet Faulconer had succeeded in having the insignia manufactured in France and then smuggled into Wilmington on a swift blockade-runner.
Rumor has it that this outfit controls huge chunks of coca production in Peru, cocaine manufacture in Colombia, smuggling in the Guajira, and distribution in the United States.
Pit Boss of Cobaltville, Guana Teague, had found Domi particularly unique and smuggled her into the Pits with a forged ID chip.
Another light was blinking to port, the guerilla pickup who would smuggle them out through the mountains, if they could reach shore and then avoid the Land patrols.
I felt perfectly certain that he had smuggled my silver piece away, and had substituted a gold piece coated with silver for it.
Their contingent would now be stretched to the breaking point searching for the non-existent tunnel, making it easier for food and supplies to be smuggled into Houff by land and river.
Peggy Dawson was convinced that Mark Kemper was a wealthy customer for some of that smuggled art.