Definition of "smuggle"

smuggle

/ˈsmʌɡəl/

verb
third-person singular simple present smuggles, present participle smuggling, simple past and past participle smuggled
1. (transitive, intransitive) To import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties
  Quotations
  A lorry driver who smuggled illegal immigrants into the UK in the back of his trailer has been jailed.
  2018 July 20, “Lorry driver jailed for smuggling illegal immigrants into UK”, in cps.gov.uk‎, London: Crown Prosecution Service, retrieved 2018-07-20
2. (transitive) To bring in surreptitiously
  Quotations
  While Collins does include a love triangle, a coming-of-age story, and other YA-friendly elements in the mix, they serve as a Trojan horse to smuggle readers into a hopeless world where love becomes a stratagem and growing up is a matter of basic survival.
  22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games
3. (transitive, obsolete) To fondle or cuddle.
4. (slang) To thrash or be thrashed by a bear's claws, or to swipe at or be swiped at by a person's arms in a bearlike manner.