contraband
Noun
1
: illegal or prohibited traffic in goods : SMUGGLING
… persons the most bound in duty to prevent contraband …—Edmund Burke
2
: goods or merchandise whose importation, exportation, or possession is forbidden
Border police searched the car for drugs and other contraband.
also : smuggled goods
3
pluralcontrabands : an enslaved person who during the American Civil War escaped to or was brought within the Union lines
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