smuggling
smuggle (someone or something) across
To transport someone or something across (some place or border) in a surreptitious or hidden manner, especially when it is illegal to do so. A: "I really miss the fresh salami they make back home, but I can't bring it through customs with me." B: "I'll try to smuggle some across for you the next time I come to visit." The man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for smuggling people across the border.
See also: across, smuggle
smuggle (someone or something) into (some place)
To transport someone or something into some place in a surreptitious or hidden manner, especially when it is illegal to do so. A: "I really miss the fresh salami they make back home, but I can't bring it through customs with me." B: "I'll try to smuggle some into the country for you the next time I come to visit." I tried smuggling my friend into the party by having her hide in a suitcase that I said had stereo equipment in it.
See also: smuggle
smuggle (someone or something) past (someone or something)
To transport someone or something across some border or past a person or organization who monitors such a border in a surreptitious or hidden manner, especially when it is illegal to do so. A: "I really miss the fresh salami they make back home, but I can't bring it through customs with me." B: "I'll try to smuggle some past customs for you the next time I come to visit." They had been smuggling drugs past the border patrol by hiding them inside of tubs of ice cream.
See also: past, smuggle
smuggle (someone or something) through (something or some place)
To transport someone or something across some border or past an organization that monitors it in a surreptitious or hidden manner, especially when it is illegal to do so. A: "I really miss the fresh salami they make back home, but I can't bring it through customs with me." B: "I'll try to smuggle some through customs for you the next time I come to visit." I managed to smuggle nearly three pounds of weed through the border.
See also: smuggle, through
smuggle in
1. To transport someone or something in (to something or some place) in a surreptitious or hidden manner, especially when it is illegal to do so. A noun or pronoun can be used between "smuggle" and "in." A: "I really miss the fresh salami they make back home, but I can't bring it through customs." B: "I'll try to smuggle in a bit of it with me the next time I come to visit." I tried smuggling my friend in the party by having her hide in a suitcase that I said had stereo equipment in it.
2. To hide someone or something inside of something in order to transport them or it without being seen or noticed, especially when it is illegal to do so. A noun or pronoun is used between "smuggle" and "in." He was caught smuggling narcotics in his luggage. The group ran an operation smuggling runaway slaves in coffins that they transported in wagons from the South to the North.
See also: smuggle
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- smuggle
- smuggle (someone or something) across
- smuggle across
- smuggle (someone or something) out (of some place)
- smuggle (someone or something) into (some place)
- smuggle (someone or something) through (something or some place)
- smuggle through
- smuggle in
- smuggle past
- smuggle (someone or something) past (someone or something)