SMUGGLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does smuggled mean? 

• SMUGGLED (adjective)
  The adjective SMUGGLED has 1 sense:

1. distributed or sold illicitly

  Familiarity information: SMUGGLED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SMUGGLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Distributed or sold illicitly

Synonyms:

black; black-market; bootleg; contraband; smuggled

Context example:

the black economy pays no taxes

Similar:

illegal (prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules)

 Context examples 

We’ve had nothing else this week back; nothing but papers, and a closed door, and the very meals left there to be smuggled in when nobody was looking.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Then she wrote a short, simple note, and with Laurie's help, got them smuggled onto the study table one morning before the old gentleman was up.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Two years ago a very large sum was smuggled through the Estimates and was expended in acquiring a monopoly of the invention.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)