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smuggling

noun as in bootlegging

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Nestled in the hills are small market towns like Buleda, dominated by Baluch who make a living smuggling diesel and drugs.

Ex-hippie Billy Hayes was busted for smuggling hash and thrown in a terrifying Turkish prison.

The Gorge has always been a hotbed of radicalism and arms smuggling, but now it is fast becoming a shahid factory.

Smuggling diesel into Turkey is a major source of ISIS revenue.

A Peruvian court subsequently convicted him of smuggling $150,000 out of the country and he was given a two-year prison sentence.

But I reckon the smuggling of Chinks into this section has been pretty well discouraged.

The long line of frontier will render all your attempts to prevent this smuggling unavailing.

Something of it, I fear, must be imputed to the extraordinary profits of the smuggling which is carried on along the coast.

The tobacco smuggling from Gibraltar keeps alive a lawless class which sinks easily into pure brigandage.

This summary action would seem entirely unjustifiable, as smuggling is not a capital offence under any civilised law.

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On this page you'll find 5 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to smuggling, such as: trafficking, stealing, rum-running, and running goods.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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