'Contraband' definitions:
Definition of 'contraband'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes" [syn: bootleg, black, black-market, contraband, smuggled]
noun
Goods whose importation or exportation or possession is prohibited by law
Definition of 'Contraband'
From: GCIDE
- Contraband \Con"tra*band\, a. Prohibited or excluded by law or treaty; forbidden; as, contraband goods, or trade. [1913 Webster]
- The contraband will always keep pace, in some measure, with the fair trade. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Contraband'
From: GCIDE
- Contraband \Con"tra*band\, v. t.
- 1. To import illegally, as prohibited goods; to smuggle. [Obs.] --Johnson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To declare prohibited; to forbid. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- The law severly contrabands Our taking business of men's hands. --Hudibras. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'contraband'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- actionable,
- against the law,
- anarchic,
- anarchistic,
- anomic,
- ban,
- banned,
- barred,
- black-market,
- bootleg,
- bootleg liquor,
- chargeable,
- cigarette smuggling,
- cigarettes,
- contrabandage,
- contrary to law,
- criminal,
- denial,
- disallowance,
- disapproved,
- dope,
- dope smuggling,
- drugs,
- Eighteenth Amendment,
- embargo,
- excluded,
- exclusion,
- felonious,
- flawed,
- forbade,
- forbid,
- forbiddance,
- forbidden,
- forbidden fruit,
- forbidding,
- gunrunning,
- hot,
- hot goods,
- illegal,
- illegitimate,
- illicit,
- impermissible,
- index,
- index expurgatorius,
- index librorum prohibitorum,
- inhibition,
- injunction,
- interdict,
- interdiction,
- interdictum,
- irregular,
- jewel smuggling,
- jewels,
- justiciable,
- law,
- lawless,
- narcotics,
- narcotics smuggling,
- no-no,
- nonconstitutional,
- nonlegal,
- nonlicit,
- nonpermissible,
- not permitted,
- off limits,
- out of bounds,
- outlaw,
- outlawed,
- preclusion,
- prevention,
- prohibited,
- prohibition,
- Prohibition Party,
- prohibitory injunction,
- proscribed,
- proscription,
- punishable,
- refusal,
- rejection,
- repression,
- restrictive covenants,
- ruled out,
- ruling out,
- rumrunning,
- run,
- shut out,
- smuggled goods,
- smuggling,
- statute,
- stolen goods,
- sumptuary laws,
- suppression,
- taboo,
- tabooed,
- triable,
- unallowed,
- unauthorized,
- unconstitutional,
- under the ban,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- unlawful,
- unlicensed,
- unofficial,
- unpermissible,
- unsanctioned,
- unstatutory,
- untouchable,
- unwarrantable,
- unwarranted,
- verboten,
- vetoed,
- Volstead Act,
- wrongful,
- zoning,
- zoning laws