Associations to the word «Smuggle»

Wiktionary

SMUGGLE, verb. (transitive) (intransitive) To import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties
SMUGGLE, verb. (transitive) To bring in surreptitiously
SMUGGLE, verb. (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.

Dictionary definition

SMUGGLE, verb. Import or export without paying customs duties; "She smuggled cigarettes across the border".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats