smuggler

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who secretly and illegally carries goods or people into or out of a country or restricted area

   The smuggler hid untaxed tobacco beneath a false floor in the truck.

2. 2
   noun

   a vessel used to carry contraband

   The patrol boat intercepted a fast smuggler just beyond the harbor.

Formed from smuggle + -er. Smuggle entered English in the seventeenth century, probably from Low German smuggelen or a related Germanic verb meaning to move goods secretly; smuggler soon named both the person and, less commonly, the vessel used.

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