Crossword-Solution: CONTRABAND
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Contraband | n. | Illegal or prohibited traffic. |
| Contraband | n. | Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of which is forbidden. |
| Contraband | n. | A negro slave, during the Civil War, escaped to, or was brought within, the Union lines. Such slave was considered contraband of war. |
| Contraband | a. | Prohibited or excluded by law or treaty; forbidden; as, contraband goods, or trade. |
| Contraband | v. t. | To import illegally, as prohibited goods; to smuggle. |
| Contraband | v. t. | To declare prohibited; to forbid. |
We have 34 clues for the answer “CONTRABAND”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Illegal trade. | 1 answer |
| CAPTURED slave | 1 answer |
| Bad goods | 1 answer |
| Custom officer's concern | 1 answer |
| Drugs, say | 1 answer |
| HOT cargo | 1 answer |
| Illegally imported goods | 1 answer |
| Illegally transported goods | 1 answer |
| Loot, apparently in opposition to the orchestra. | 1 answer |
| NEGRO slave | 1 answer |
| Nicaraguan music makers? | 1 answer |
| SMUGGLED goods | 1 answer |
| Smuggled plunder? | 1 answer |
| Hot goods | 3 answers |
| poaching | 5 answers |
| smuggling | 5 answers |
| BLACK marketeering | 7 answers |
| CLANDESTINE operation | 7 answers |
| Trafficking. | 8 answers |
| piracy | 9 answers |
| Swag | 13 answers |
| Bootleg. | 13 answers |
| Forbidden | 18 answers |
| unlawful | 26 answers |
| illegality | 27 answers |
| Booty | 29 answers |
| Prohibited | 38 answers |
| Illicit | 41 answers |
| Banned | 52 answers |
| illegal | 53 answers |
| Slave | 56 answers |
| Fugitive | 68 answers |
| BLACK ___ | 123 answers |
| Hot | 137 answers |
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with CONTRABAND (5)
When General Butler learned that the South was using slaves to erect military defenses, he declared that such slaves were contraband of war and therefore did not have to be returned.
However to the initiate or the suspect, it was evident from the accuracy with which the guards targeted specific contraband on a person or in his belongings that they knew more than they were telling.
Giles’s, to search for contraband goods, and the mob fired on the musketeers, and the musketeers fired on the mob, and nobody thought any of these occurrences much out of the common way.
Home at last, Harold suggested one or two occupations of a spicy and contraband flavour, but though we did our manful best there was no knocking any interest out of them.
The store was to the front, with a counter, scales, and the poorest possible display of trade: a case or two of tinned meats; a barrel of hard bread; a few bolts of cotton stuff, not to be compared with mine; the only thing well represented being the contraband, firearms and liquor.
Quotes with CONTRABAND (3)
Anubis is associated with the mummification and protection of the dead for their journeys through Denver International Airport to the afterlife. He is usually portrayed as being half human and half jackal, and holding a metal detector in his hand ... Anubis is employed by the Department of Homeland Security to examine the hearts of all travellers to make sure they have not exceeded the weight limit for psychological baggage ... He is also shown frisking mummies and confiscati…
She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society, a code so severe that whoever breaks it is hounded from our midst as unfit to live with. She is the victim of cruel poverty and ignorance, but I cannot pity her: she is white. She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it. She persisted, and her subsequent reaction is something that…
Morality is contraband in war.
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Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1956–2014).