The Meaning of contraband

• (n.) Illegal or prohibited traffic.
• (n.) Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of which is forbidden.
• (n.) A negro slave, during the Civil War, escaped to, or was brought within, the Union lines. Such slave was considered contraband of war.
• (a.) Prohibited or excluded by law or treaty; forbidden; as, contraband goods, or trade.
• (v. t.) To import illegally, as prohibited goods; to smuggle.
• (v. t.) To declare prohibited; to forbid.

Synonyms

bootleg , black , black-market , smuggled

Rhymes

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