What does SMUGGLE mean?

Definitions for SMUGGLE
ˈsmʌg əlsmug·gle

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. smuggleverb

    import or export without paying customs duties

    "She smuggled cigarettes across the border"

Wiktionary

  1. smuggleverb

    To import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties

  2. smuggleverb

    To bring in surreptitiously

  3. smuggleverb

    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.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To SMUGGLEverb

    To import or export goods without paying the customs.

    Etymology: smockelen, Dutch.

Wikipedia

  1. Smuggle

    Smuggling is the illegal transportation of objects, substances, information or people, such as out of a house or buildings, into a prison, or across an international border, in violation of applicable laws or other regulations. There are various motivations to smuggle. These include the participation in illegal trade, such as in the drug trade, illegal weapons trade, prostitution, human trafficking, kidnapping, exotic wildlife trade, art theft, heists, chop shops, illegal immigration or illegal emigration, tax evasion, import/export restrictions, providing contraband to prison inmates, or the theft of the items being smuggled. Smuggling is a common theme in literature, from Bizet's opera Carmen to the James Bond spy books (and later films) Diamonds Are Forever and Goldfinger.

ChatGPT

  1. smuggle

    To smuggle is to transport or import goods or persons secretly, illegally, or by illicit methods, often across international borders, to avoid taxes, import/export restrictions, or other governmental regulations.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Smuggleverb

    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. Smuggleverb

    fig.: To convey or introduce clandestinely

  3. Smuggleverb

    to import or export in violation of the customs laws

  4. Etymology: [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. smgan to creep. See Smock.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Smuggle

    smug′l, 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. [Low Ger. smuggeln, cog. with Ger. schmuggeln; Dut. smuigen, to eat secretly.]

  2. Smuggle

    smug′l, v.t. to fondle, cuddle.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of SMUGGLE in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of SMUGGLE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of SMUGGLE in a Sentence

  1. Tia Freeman:

    Anyway they thought I was a human trafficker trying to smuggle out a baby, so they called in customs, the police a doctor a nurse (to check the baby me to see if I actually gave birth), and the airline higher ups. I was bombarded with questions (naturally) but finally I proved that I wasn’t a trafficker. During this I called the @USEmbassyTurkey.

  2. James Mitchell:

    (The CIA) had ongoing information to suggest that (terrorists) were trying to smuggle nuclear weapons into the U.S., there was all this anthrax stuff going on, there was credible evidence to suggest that there was another wave of attacks coming and we couldn't have it happen.

  3. Richard Donoghue:

    As alleged in the indictment, Elorza is not only a drug trafficker, he also betrayed a veterinarian’s pledge to prevent animal suffering when he used his surgical skills in a cruel scheme to smuggle heroin in the abdomens of puppies, dogs are man's best friend and, as the defendant is about to learn, we are drug dealers’ worst enemy.

  4. Rani Amir:

    The aim was to smuggle oil illegally from Iran to Syria.

  5. Texas DPS spokesman Christopher Olivarez:

    That is why we are experiencing an increase in human smuggling events along the border, many individuals from larger metropolitan areas such as Austin, Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and even out of state are being recruited as drivers through social media platforms to smuggle illegal immigrants.

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