meaning of contraband
1. Illegal or prohibited traffic.
2. Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of which is forbidden.
3. A negro slave, during the Civil War, escaped to, or was brought within, the Union lines. Such slave was considered contraband of war.
4. Prohibited or excluded by law or treaty; forbidden; as, contraband goods, or trade.
5. To import illegally, as prohibited goods; to smuggle.
6. To declare prohibited; to forbid.
7. goods whose importation or exportation or possession is prohibited by law
Related Words
contraband | contrabandism | contrabandist |
