noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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contraband cigarettes
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A yacht or fishing vessel would find it quite easy to evade our controls and could carry large amounts of contraband .
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Congress volunteers sold contraband salt in the cities.
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Once, the only tape recorders finding their way into concerts were smuggled like contraband .
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One problem with descramblers is that they are not inherently illegal, like contraband .
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So far the contraband is low-grade stuff from industrial sources, not weapon-grade materials.
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The bikes were, technically, contraband , but the border guards turned a blind eye.
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Then there was the contraband literature which constituted research.
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X-ray technology, the machines, in scanning for contraband , produce a crude image of visitors' bodies without clothing.