Dictionary Entry
contraband
contraband is a 10-letter English word with 8 senses as noun, adjective, and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Illegal or prohibited traffic. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 19 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Illegal or prohibited traffic.
- 2noun
Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of which is forbidden.
- 3noun
A negro slave, during the Civil War, escaped to, or was brought within, the Union lines. Such slave was considered contraband of war.
- 4adjective
Prohibited or excluded by law or treaty; forbidden; as, contraband goods, or trade.
- 5transitive verb
To import illegally, as prohibited goods; to smuggle.
- 6transitive verb
To declare prohibited; to forbid.
- 7noun
goods whose importation or exportation or possession is prohibited by law
- 8adjective
distributed or sold illicitly
"the black economy pays no taxes"
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