Smuggle
['smʌg(ə)l] or ['smʌgl]
Definition
(verb.) import or export without paying customs duties; 'She smuggled cigarettes across the border'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To import or export secretly, contrary to the law; to import or export without paying the duties imposed by law; as, to smuggle lace.
(v. t.) Fig.: To convey or introduce clandestinely.
(v. i.) To import or export in violation of the customs laws.
Checked by Jo
Definition
v.t. to fondle cuddle.
v.t. to import or export without paying the legal duty: to convey secretly.—ns. Smugg′ler one who smuggles: a vessel used in smuggling; Smugg′ling defrauding the government of revenue by the evasion of custom-duties or excise-taxes.
Editor: Milton
Examples
- I can go out when I like, and I'll smuggle the prog in. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Heavy duties being imposed upon almost all goods imported, our merchant importers smuggle as much, and make entry of as little as they can. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- At christenings folk will even smuggle in a reel or two, if 'tis no further on than the first or second chiel. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- That Ireland also began in its turn to organize National Volunteers and to smuggle arms. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Then she wrote a short, simple note, and with Laurie's help, got them smuggled onto the study table one morning before the old gentleman was up. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Some of those Medicis would have smuggled themselves in sure. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Even yet she used to send him little hurried smuggled notes, and pop them into the post in private. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He makes an allowance, too, for the quantity of each metal which, he supposes, may have been smuggled. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He smuggled wine in. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- An asp was smuggled to her past the Roman sentries, concealed in a basket of figs, and by its fangs she died. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Back in the seventies an English botanist, Wickham by name, smuggled many Hevea seeds out of Brazil. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Not many people are scrupulous about smuggling, when, without perjury, they can find an easy and safe opportunity of doing so. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But the penalties of smuggling must arise in proportion to the temptation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The price was enormously high, and made successful smuggling very profitable. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- An injudicious tax offers a great temptation to smuggling. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In these particular branches of the excise, there is not, I apprehend, much more smuggling in the one country than in the other. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Editor: Winthrop