Other forms: smugglers
A smuggler is somebody who moves goods illegally past customs. Catch the smuggler, a tobacco smuggler, smugglers' caves.
In eighteenth-century Britain it was near enough a local industry, because duty on tea, brandy and lace was so high that whole coastal villages took part. The modern trade is mostly cigarettes, drugs and, most seriously, people.
1nounsmugglerSomebody who moves goods illegally past customs.
“Border guards caught a smuggler with gold bars hidden inside the seats of his car.”
smuggler is a criminal.
Dutch
smokkelen
English
smuggle
English, today
smuggler
From smuggle + -er. smuggle comes from smuckle, from Dutch smokkelen. From earlier smuckle, either from Dutch smokkelen (“to smuggle”), a frequentative form of Middle Dutch smugen (“to act secretly, be sneaky”), from Old Dutch smugan, or from nds-nl - or German Low German smuggeln; all are from Proto-West Germanic smeugan (“to creep; slip through or into”). 2
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA