Meaning & use
Smuggle
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To move goods or people illegally and secretly, especially across a national border.
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Customs officers caught them trying to smuggle cigarettes across the border.
The film follows a group trying to smuggle refugees to safety.
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Believed to come from a Low German or Dutch word meaning to sneak, related to slinking around unseen.
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