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Smuggler vs Smuggles - What's the difference?

smuggler | smuggles |

As a noun smuggler

is one who smuggles things.

As a verb smuggles is

(smuggle).

smuggler

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who smuggles things.
  • A vessel employed in smuggling.

    • smuggles

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (smuggle)

    • smuggle

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (dialectal)

    Verb

    (wikipedia smuggle) (smuggl)
  • (intransitive) To import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties
  • To bring in surreptitiously
  • * 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
    • While Collins does include a love triangle, a coming-of-age story, and other YA-friendly elements in the mix, they serve as a Trojan horse to smuggle readers into a hopeless world where love becomes a stratagem and growing up is a matter of basic survival.
  • (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.

    • Derived terms

    * smuggling * smuggler

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    * English words suffixed with -le