SMUGGLER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does smuggler mean? 

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

1. someone who imports or exports without paying duties

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SMUGGLER (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 ("smuggler" 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 "smuggler"):

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:

smuggle (import or export without paying customs duties)

 Context examples 

And then there were the smugglers!

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Some of the men who had been to field-work on the far side of the Admiral Benbow remembered, besides, to have seen several strangers on the road, and taking them to be smugglers, to have bolted away; and one at least had seen a little lugger in what we called Kitt's Hole.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

We have no foolish ideas about wealth, but comfort is another matter, and our daughter should at least marry a man who can give her that—and not a penniless adventurer, a sailor, a cowboy, a smuggler, and Heaven knows what else, who, in addition to everything, is hare-brained and irresponsible.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)