Contraband
English Meaning
Illegal or prohibited traffic.
- Goods prohibited by law or treaty from being imported or exported.
- Illegal traffic in contraband; smuggling.
- Smuggled goods.
- Goods that may be seized and confiscated by a belligerent if shipped to another belligerent by a neutral.
- An escaped slave during the Civil War who fled to or was taken behind Union lines.
- Prohibited from being imported or exported.