CONTRABANDIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does contrabandist mean? 

• CONTRABANDIST (noun)
  The noun CONTRABANDIST has 1 sense:

1. someone who imports or exports without paying duties

  Familiarity information: CONTRABANDIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONTRABANDIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who imports or exports without paying duties

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

contrabandist; moon-curser; moon curser; runner; smuggler

Hypernyms ("contrabandist" is a kind of...):

criminal; crook; felon; malefactor; outlaw (someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "contrabandist"):

coyote (someone who smuggles illegal immigrants into the United States (usually across the Mexican border))

arms-runner; gunrunner (a smuggler of guns)

rumrunner (someone who illegally smuggles liquor across a border)

Derivation:

contraband (goods whose importation or exportation or possession is prohibited by law)