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Smuggled   /smˈəgəld/   Listen
verb
Smuggle  v. t.  (past & past part. smuggled; pres. part. smuggling)  
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.


Smuggle  v. i.  To import or export in violation of the customs laws.





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"Smuggled" Quotes from Famous Books



... flowers and grass-slopes. At a pause in the game there was a gathering on the lawn to watch the execution of a little surprise which the cricketers had prepared for our host. From a box which had been perilously smuggled in, was produced a memorial gift (it consisted of a study-clock and inkstand), which "the cricketers of Uppingham begged Sir Pryse to accept, as a slight acknowledgment of his special liberality to themselves;" for so it was set forth in an address which the captain of the eleven ...
— Uppingham by the Sea - a Narrative of the Year at Borth • John Henry Skrine
... will be no main ports of entry as in sea or train commerce, and it is too much to think that any nation can patrol its whole aerial frontier in all its various air strata. Undesirable immigrants or small precious freight can be smuggled in with the greatest ease through the route of ...
— Opportunities in Aviation • Arthur Sweetser
... that liquor was being brought on the reservation, he made vigorous efforts to break up the practice. Colonel Maynard rather poohpoohed the whole business. It was his theory that a man who was determined to have a drink might better be allowed to take an honest one, coram publico, than a smuggled and deleterious article; but he succumbed to the rule that only "light wines and beer" should be sold at the store, and was lenient to the poor devils who overloaded and deranged their stomachs in consequence. But Chester no sooner found himself in command than he launched ...
— From the Ranks • Charles King
... course; and, finally, the fruits and bon-bons. Strong coffee is served last of all, in small cups. Fashion decrees cafe noir, and few lovers of cream care to rebel on so formal an occasion as a dinner; but when the formality is not too rigid, the little cream jug may be smuggled in for those who ...
— Etiquette • Agnes H. Morton
... himself smuggled off in a cab, without being forced to go again upon the platform—his luggage being brought to him by two assiduous porters. But in all this there was very little balm for his hurt pride. As he ordered the cabman to drive to Mount Street, he felt that ...
— The Small House at Allington • Anthony Trollope


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