Word Meaning

Meaning of "contraband" and the crossword clue

- Illegal traffic
- Prohibited
- Illegal or prohibited traffic.
- Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of which is forbidden.
- A negro slave, during the Civil War, escaped to, or was brought within, the Union lines. Such slave was considered contraband of war.
- Prohibited or excluded by law or treaty; forbidden; as, contraband goods, or trade.
- To import illegally, as prohibited goods; to smuggle.
- To declare prohibited; to forbid.