HOW TO PRONOUNCE
smuggle
/ˈsmʌɡəl/
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What does smuggle mean?
verb
- To import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties
- To bring in surreptitiously
- (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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verb
- (obsolete) To fondle or cuddle.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈsmʌɡəl/
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"I thought you had got Miss Chapman planted in your shop so that these other guys could smuggle her away."
Thus many married men are reduced to collecting Elzevirs, which go readily into the pocket, for you cannot smuggle a folio volume easily.
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In Belgium Poodles were systematically trained to smuggle valuable lace, which was wound round their shaven bodies and covered with a false skin.
Heavy duties being imposed upon almost all goods imported, our merchant importers smuggle as much, and make entry of as little as they can.
He said if I’d a wanted it to hide a knife in, and smuggle it to Jim to kill the seneskal with, it would a been all right.