transitive verb

• 1Move (goods) illegally into or out of a country.

  More example sentences

  • ‘he's been smuggling cigarettes from Gibraltar into Spain’

  1. 1.1with object and adverbial of direction Convey (someone or something) somewhere secretly and illicitly.
     More example sentences

     • ‘he smuggled out a message’
     Synonyms

     bring illegally, take illegally, run, sneak

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