Smuggle

Definition: Smuggle

Smuggle

Verb

1. Import or export without paying customs duties; "She smuggled cigarettes across the border".

Date "smuggle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Illegality	Smuggle, run, poach.
Interposition	Put between, introduce, import, throw in, wedge in, edge in, jam in, worm in, foist in, run in, plow in, work in; interpose, interject, intercalate, interpolate, interline, interleave, intersperse, interweave, interlard, interdigitate, sandwich in, fit in, squeeze in; let in, dovetail, splice, mortise; insinuate, smuggle; infiltrate, ingrain.
Stealing	Plunder, pillage, rifle, sack, loot, ransack, spoil, spoliate, despoil, strip, sweep, gut, forage, levy blackmail, pirate, pickeer, maraud, lift cattle, poach; smuggle, run; badger; bail up, hold up, stick up; bunco, bunko, filibuster.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Smuggle

Specialty definitions using "smuggle": dictionary flame ♦ OWLERS. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Next time we smuggle stock, let's make it something smaller. (Firefly; writing credit: John Sullivan) No you are well within the legal limit on that you are over the legal limit of foreign kids you can smuggle out of this country! (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond)
Movie/TV Titles	How to Smuggle a Hernia Across the Border (1949)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Deception Pass: The Terrorist Plot to Smuggle Nuclear Weapons into the United States of America (reference) Spy, Steal, and Smuggle (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Human Rights	Morocco	The AMDH states that 20 political prisoners remained in detention at years' end on charges of trying to smuggle arms into Algeria. (references)
	Panama	In June there were press reports that the national policemen who serve as prison guards in La Joya subject prisoners to serious physical abuses and smuggle drugs, weapons, and cellular telephones into the system. (references)
Worker Rights	Hong Kong	On a much smaller scale, traffickers have attempted to smuggle persons in shipping containers. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Smuggle" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Smuggle" is used about 88 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	87.5%	77	37,929
Lexical Verb (base form)	11.36%	10	111,207
Noun (singular)	1.14%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	88	N/A

Expressions using "smuggle": smuggle away ♦ smuggle in ♦ smuggle into ♦ smuggle out ♦ smuggle smth. in ♦ smuggle through. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "smuggle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		fut kontrabandë, bëj kontrabandë. (various references)

Arabic		‏هرب البضائع, ‏هرب (abscond, contraband, drive away, elope, escape, fled, flee, fleeing, fly, get away, get out of, powder, put to flight, run away, run first, run from smb., run off, shun, slope, take flight, take to one's heels, tamper, traffic, turn tail). (various references)

Bulgarian		контрабандирам, внасям (import, inject, introduce, pay in), изнасям тайно. (various references)

Chinese		走私 . (various references)

Czech		pašovat. (various references)

Dutch		smokkelen (take in). (various references)

Esperanto		kontrabandi. (various references)

Farsi		قاچاق کردن . (various references)

French		passer en fraude, passer en contrebande, faire entrer clandestinement, faire de la contrebande de. (various references)

German		schmuggeln (bootleg, contraband, to bootleg, to smuggle). (various references)

Greek		κάνω λαθρεμπόριο. (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"�'� יב (insinuate). (various references)

Hungarian		csempészik (to smuggle). (various references)

Indonesian		menyusupkan, menyelundupkan. (various references)

Irish		smuigleÚil. (various references)

Italian		contrabbandare. (various references)

Korean		밀수하십시�". (various references)

Manx		smuggyl, smuggleragh, drogh hraghtey (smuggling). (various references)

Pig Latin		ugglesmay

Portuguese		contrabandear (contraband, interlope, run). (various references)

Romanian		introduce prin contrabandã, introduce pe furiş, face contrabandã cu, escamota (distort, falsify). (various references)

Russian		заниматься контрабандой (interlope), принести тайком. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		prokrijumčariti (smuggle in), prošvercovati, biti krijumčar, švercovati. (various references)

Spanish		pasar (blow over, bypass, come, come about, come by, come down, come in, come off, cross, dilute, draw, elapse, enact, ensue, expend, function, gait, get, get across, get by, get over, get through, give, go, go by, go off, go on, go over, go past, go through, goffer, hand, hand down, hand on, hand over, happen, kick around, knot, lapse, last, light out, line, live, live through, move, occupy, occur, outdo, overstep, overtake, pass, pass across, pass away, pass by, pass off, pass on, pass round, passing, pop in, post, proceed, put across, put down, reach, relay, render, ride by, roll by, run, shift, skip, spend, strain, suffer, swallow, take away, throw out, tick away, tick by, to pass, to spend, touch, tough, turn, turn about, turn around, turn over, wear off, wear on, while), hacer contrabando. (various references)

Swedish		smuggla (bootleg, foist, run). (various references)

Thai		ลักลอบนำเข้า (smuggle in). (various references)

Turkish		kaçakçılık yapmak, gizlice sokmak, gizlice çıkarmak, gümrükten mal kaçırmak. (various references)

Ukrainian		займатися контрабандою (contraband, interlope, push), провозити контрабандою. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "smuggle": smuggled, smuggler, smugglers, smuggles. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Smuggle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Mughla, mugle, shuggle, Smigel, smoggle, smogle, smugle, smurggle, smurgle, snaggle, snuggal, snugle, stuggle, sugge. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "smuggle" (pronounced smu"gul)
4	-u" g u l	juggle, snuggle, struggle.
3	-g u l	algal, angle, antifungal, bagel, bangle, beagle, bedraggle, boggle, Bogle, boondoggle, bugle, centrifugal, commingle, conjugal, dangle, Dingle, disentangle, eagle, entangle, extralegal, finagle, frugal, fungal, gaggle, giggle, goggle, gurgle, haggle, illegal, Ingle, intermingle, jangle, jiggle, jingle, jungle, Kugel, legal, madrigal, Mangel, mangle, milligal, mingle, mogul, mongol, Ogle, paralegal, prodigal, rectangle, regal, shingle, single, Spangle, Spiegel, squiggle, straggle, strangle, swingle, tangle, tingle, toggle, triangle, untangle, wangle, wiggle, wrangle, wriggle.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-g-g-l-m-s-u"
	-1 letter: glumes.
	-2 letters: geums, glues, glugs, glume, gules, luges, muggs, mules.
	-3 letters: eggs, elms, emus, gels, gems, geum, gleg, glue, glug, glum, guls, gums, legs, lues, luge, lugs, lums, megs, mels, mugg, mugs, mule, muse, slue, slug, slum, smug.
	-4 letters: egg, elm, els, ems, emu, gel, gem, gul, gum, leg, leu, lug, lum, meg, mel.
	Words containing the letters "e-g-g-l-m-s-u"
	+1 letter: smuggled, smuggler, smuggles.
	+2 letters: smugglers.
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