Definitions for contrabands

contrabands con·tra·band

Spelling: [kon-truh-band]
IPA: /ˈkɒn trəˌbænd/

Contrabands is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 846 anagrams from letters in contrabands (aabcdnnorst).

Definitions for contrabands

noun

  1. anything prohibited by law from being imported or exported.
  2. goods imported or exported illegally.
  3. illegal or prohibited trade; smuggling.
  4. International Law. contraband of war.
  5. (during the American Civil War) a black slave who escaped to or was brought within the Union lines.

adjective

  1. prohibited from export or import.

Origin of contrabands

1520-30; earlier contrabanda Spanish Italian contrabando (now contrabbando), equivalent to contra contra1 + Medieval Latin bandum, variant of bannum

Examples for contrabands

Of this state of things we were informed by a contraband we chanced to meet.

Prison guards in Lima found a contraband mobile phone in his prison cell that he claimed was given to him by the warden.

Yazbek says no one takes names, and no one checks for weapons or other contraband.

Of course, as Singer notes, “Smuggling things that are contraband at a prison is not a national security emergency.”

Suppose she has to pay excess on her luggage, or to wrangle about contraband?

A CBP dog sniffs around for contraband like drugs, food, weapons, people.

He was convicted of perjury, served 30 days, and went back to a swashbuckling career in contraband.

The cargo had been well shipped by men skilled in the subtle art of contraband.

He wanted its earrings—they were contraband of war, I suppose.

But something new in this veracious narration—the contraband.

Word Value for contrabands
Scrable

15

Words with friends

19

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