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Contrabandist

noun
1.
Someone who imports or exports without paying duties.  Synonyms: moon-curser, moon curser, runner, smuggler.





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"Contrabandist" Quotes from Famous Books



... thousand gallons of confiscated whisky were seized in godly Massachusetts in one year, we can infer the difficulties in the Maine law of the Celestials. The custom is for a hong, a smuggler in a Chinese junk, to draw up beside the English contrabandist and transfer the cargo ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII, No. 28. July, 1873. • Various
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... they did not grow or grew very niggardly. The traffic in these delicacies drew the attention of the London and North- Western Railway Company, whose officials called to account one of our servants for travelling with an excess of personal luggage. The artless contrabandist, besides his own modest pack, had fourteen several hampers and boxes under his charge. This was checked. But who was the miscreant who systematically staved in and pounded into such odd shapes the ...
— Uppingham by the Sea - a Narrative of the Year at Borth • John Henry Skrine
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Words linked to "Contrabandist" :   malefactor, arms-runner, smuggler, gunrunner, rumrunner, outlaw, contraband, felon, criminal, crook, coyote


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