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smuggle definition

smug·gle (smug′əl)

transitive verb smuggled -·gled, smuggling -·gling

  1. to bring into or take out of a country secretly, under illegal conditions or without paying the required import or export duties
  2. to bring, take, carry, etc. secretly or stealthily

Etymology: < LowG smuggeln, akin to OE smugan, to creep: for IE base see smock

intransitive verb

to practice smuggling; be a smuggler

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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