Definitions
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- n. A dealer in contraband.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. One who traffics illegally; a smuggler.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who traffics illegally; a smuggler.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. someone who imports or exports without paying duties
Etymologies
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Examples
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The slave-traders in the Congo look upon their employment as did the contrabandist in the golden days of smuggling; the “free sailor” whom Marryatt depicts, a law-breaker, yet not less a very pleasant, companionable fellow.
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Pangsapa was a narcotics contrabandist and an informant on the side.
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Pangsapa was a narcotics contrabandist and would therefore know people who were prepared to kill for a fix of snow, or who were prepared to expose the most sacrosanct confidences of friends and inform on them.
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Our Dutch friend Gist was, correctly speaking, a contrabandist.
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Chinese junk, to draw up beside the English contrabandist and transfer the cargo in the outer harbor.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873
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Francisco L. Rojas, a shipowner, contrabandist, and merchant, was not so fortunate.
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The contrabandist supplies had been of a very limited nature, and now they were over she suffered a more than common misery of reaction from excess.
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On the right of the picture, a contrabandist of Bilboa enters, upon his mule, and in front of him is an athletic Castilian armed, and a minstrel dwarf, with a
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 371, May 23, 1829
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At this juncture came the famous blockade runner, the Arkadi, a most successful contrabandist of the American war, and at every trip she made she carried away a number of women and children.
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Toni which the contrabandist seemed to think no more about.
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