smuggle
IPA: smˈʌgʌɫ
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties
- (transitive) To bring in surreptitiously
- (transitive, obsolete) To fondle or cuddle.
- (slang) 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.
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Examples of "smuggle" in Sentences
- He smuggled the drug.
- The gang smuggled some drugs from Mexico.
- He also pioneered the use of aircraft to smuggle drugs to the United States.
- Jabba had hired Han to smuggle the illicit drug spice from the asteroid Kessel.
- Reminds me of the time I tried to 'smuggle' Marks & Spencers chocolate biscuits into Australia.
- And people used to kind of smuggle their records in and you know, so we had an inkling that that was going on.
- It is wrapped like that because someone (on their request) was supposed to "smuggle" it to the US where no such sheep tail fat can be found.
- If this person was known since August, 2009, do you really believe someone else – who is not being watched – would have been unable to "smuggle" a bomb onto the airline?
- No, I was not trying to "smuggle" anything or anyone into the country, I occasionally go into Tijuana to buy gallons of imitation vanilla for recipes that we use in our Taco Shops.
- A pro-life group warns that Senate Democrats are attempting to use the end of the year omnibus funding bill to "smuggle" in the removal of three longstanding bans on government-funded
- The simmering controversy between Egypt and Germany boiled over anew earlier this year when a German news magazine printed excerpts from documents which allegedly indicated Borchardt deliberately used subterfuge to "smuggle" the bust out of Egypt.
- Schumann, in his playful manner, speaks of caprice and wantonness, and insinuates that Chopin bound together four of his maddest children, and entitled them sonata, in order that he might perhaps under this name smuggle them in where otherwise they would not penetrate.
- Theft of trade secrets and valuable intellectual property - including business critical documents stolen by employees who use web-based email to "smuggle" such information out of the company - may be costing British businesses millions a year, according to a recently published report.
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