Contraband

Contraband - Other Definitions

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