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What does smuggle mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word smuggle? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive, intransitive) To import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties
  2. (transitive) To bring in surreptitiously
  3. (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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Wooden-hulled ships known as dhows have been used to smuggle dates and oil past the international blockade.
In 1984, the Nigerian authorities tried to smuggle their kidnapped foreign minister out of London in a diplomatic bag.
But how far should we go to smuggle hard subjects into the minds of disaffected youth?
Don't be surprised if gagsters manage to smuggle atomic bombs and crashing aircraft into the story.
I sign myself in, I am searched and I then join a line-up in a yard while a frisky dog sniffs me in case I am trying to smuggle in drugs.
At present heroic missions are undertaken by activists who smuggle generic drugs into countries where their sale is prohibited.

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