CONTRABAND


Meaning of CONTRABAND in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

contraband cigarettes

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A yacht or fishing vessel would find it quite easy to evade our controls and could carry large amounts of contraband .

Congress volunteers sold contraband salt in the cities.

Once, the only tape recorders finding their way into concerts were smuggled like contraband .

One problem with descramblers is that they are not inherently illegal, like contraband .

So far the contraband is low-grade stuff from industrial sources, not weapon-grade materials.

The bikes were, technically, contraband , but the border guards turned a blind eye.

Then there was the contraband literature which constituted research.

X-ray technology, the machines, in scanning for contraband , produce a crude image of visitors' bodies without clothing.

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