smuggler
/ˈsmʌɡ.lə(ɹ)/
smuggler noun: one who smuggles things.
Noun
smuggler (plural smugglers)
- One who smuggles things.
- Every time the little gate creaks--I'm in the shed with the tanks at the end of the garden--I wonder from which of my pasts the person is arriving, seeking me out even here: maybe it is only the past of yesterday and of this same suburb, the squat Arab garbage collector who in October begins his...1979, Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
- Cabbage Moh, a Cantonese smuggler and drug dealer from triad-controlled Shumchun on the Hong Kong border, sees an opportunity to the north and opens dens supplying dope and philopon ferried up the Soochow Creek and distributed out of Fah Wah Village, adjacent to the new sin strip.2018, Paul French, City of Devils, Picador, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 118
- A vessel employed in smuggling.
smuggler meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
smuggler in Hindi
- One who smuggles things
- तस्कर taskar
smuggler in Tamil
- கள்ளக்கடத்தல் காரர், கள்ளத்தனமாகக் கடத்துபவர்
smuggler in Marathi
- One who smuggles things
- तस्कर taskar
smuggler in Urdu
- قاچاقچی
More languagesFewer languages
- smuggler in Bengali
- চোরাকারবারি
- smuggler in Malayalam
- കള്ളച്ചരക്കുകൊണ്ടുപോകുന്നവൻ, കള്ളക്കടത്തുകാരൻ, വ്യാജമായി കടത്തുന്നവൻ
- smuggler in Kannada
- ಕಳ್ಳಸಾಗಾಣಿಕೆದಾರ, ಸುಂಕಗಳ್ಳ
- smuggler in Assamese
- চোৰাং বেপাৰী süraṅ bepari
- smuggler in Pashto
- قاچاقچي qāčāqči, قاچاقبر qāčāqbar
- smuggler in Tagalog
- mamumuslit
- smuggler in Arabic
- مُهَرِّب muharrib
- smuggler in Malay
- penyeludup
- smuggler in Indonesian
- penyelundup
- smuggler in Persian
- قاچاقچی qâčâqči
- smuggler in Thai
- ผู้ลักลอบ
- smuggler in Vietnamese
- người buôn lậu
Examples of smuggler in a sentence
- We should not condone the assignment of asylum seekers to that of people smugglers.
- Smugglers operating secretly so as not to excite suspicion.
- The smugglers thought they could get away with bringing an assload of heroin balloons on board the aircraft.
Synonyms of smuggler
Forms of smuggler
| plural | smugglers |
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Origin of smuggler
From smuggle + -er.
Words formed from smuggler
- antismuggler
- budgie smuggler
- grape smuggler
- people smuggler
- smuggler's moon
Questions about smuggler
- What does smuggler mean?
- Smuggler means one who smuggles things.
- What is smuggler in Hindi?
- Smuggler in Hindi is तस्कर (taskar). See Smuggler meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is smuggler?
- Smuggler is a noun.
- How do you pronounce smuggler?
- Smuggler is pronounced /ˈsmʌɡ.lə(ɹ)/ (UK).
- What is the plural of smuggler?
- The plural of smuggler is smugglers.
Words near smuggler in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: smuggler (page history and authors); smuggler (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); smuggler (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); smuggler (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); smuggler (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); smuggler (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); চোৰাং বেপাৰী (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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