Synonyms of the word

contraband

• n. (uncountable) any goods which are illicit or illegal to possess.
• n. (uncountable) goods which are prohibited from being traded, smuggled goods.
• n. (countable, US, historical) A black slave during the American Civil War who had escaped to, or been captured…
• adj. prohibited from being traded.
• v. (obsolete) To import illegally; to smuggle.
• v. (obsolete) To declare prohibited; to forbid.

black

• adj. (of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
• adj. (of a place, etc) Without light.
• adj. (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the…
• adj. (chiefly historical) Designated for use by those ethnic groups which have dark pigmentation of the skin.
• adj. (card games, of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red (“of the hearts or diamonds suit”).
• adj. Bad; evil; ill-omened.
• adj. Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.
• adj. Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
• adj. (Ireland, informal) Overcrowded.
• adj. (of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk, or creamer.
• adj. (board games, chess) Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black"…
• adj. (typography) Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare white (“said of a…
• adj. (politics) Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
• adj. Relating to an initiative whose existence or exact nature must remain withheld from the general public.
• n. (countable and uncountable) The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light…
• n. (countable and uncountable) A black dye or pigment.
• n. (countable) A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
• n. (in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.
• n. (sometimes capitalised, countable) A person of African, Aborigine, or Maori descent; a dark-skinned person.
• n. (billiards, snooker, pool, with the, countable) The black ball.
• n. (baseball, countable) The edge of home plate.
• n. (Britain, countable) a type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
• n. (informal, countable) blackcurrant syrup (in mixed drinks, e.g. snakebite and black, cider and black).
• n. (in chess and similar games, countable) The person playing with the black set of pieces.
• n. (countable) Part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.
• n. (obsolete, countable) A stain; a spot.
• v. To make black, to blacken.
• v. To apply blacking to something.
• v. (Britain) To boycott something or someone, usually as part of an industrial dispute.

black-market

• adj. Traded on the black market.
• adj. Contraband, bootleg or smuggled.
• v. (intransitive) To participate in a black market.
• v. (transitive) To sell in a black market.

bootleg

• v. (chiefly US, transitive) to make, transport and/or sell illegal alcoholic liquor.
• v. (transitive) to make, transport and/or sell an illegal version or copy of a copyrighted product.
• v. (intransitive) to engage in bootlegging.
• n. The part of a boot that is above the instep.
• n. An illegally produced, transported or sold product; contraband.
• n. (music) A remix or mashup that is a combination of two songs but that is authorized and audited for copyright…
• n. (American football) A play in which the quarterback fakes a handoff, conceals the ball against his hip,…
• adj. illegally produced, transported or sold; pirated.

illegal

• adj. Contrary to or forbidden by law, especially criminal law.
• adj. Forbidden by established rules.
• adj. (philately, of an issue printed for collectors) Totally fictitious, and often issued on behalf of a non-existent…
• adj. (of a person, sometimes offensive) Being or doing something illegally.
• adj. (chiefly US, sometimes offensive) Being an illegal immigrant; residing in a country illegally.
• n. (colloquial, offensive) An illegal immigrant.
• n. An illegal resident spy.

merchandise

• n. (uncountable) Commodities offered for sale.
• n. (countable) A commodity offered for sale; an article of commerce; a kind of merchandise.
• n. (uncountable) The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To engage in trade; to carry on commerce.
• v. (intransitive) To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of goods, as by display and arrangement of…
• v. (transitive, archaic) To engage in the trade of.
• v. (transitive) To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of.
• v. (transitive) To promote as if for sale.

product

• n. (countable, uncountable) A commodity offered for sale.
• n. (cosmetics, uncountable) Any preparation to be applied to the hair, skin, nails, etc.
• n. Anything that is produced; a result.
• n. (US, slang) Illegal drugs, especially cocaine, when viewed as a commodity.

smuggled

• v. simple past tense and past participle of smuggle.

ware

• adj. (poetic) aware.
• n. (obsolete) The state of being aware; heed.
• n. (uncountable, usually in combination) Goods or a type of goods offered for sale or use.
• n. (in the plural) See wares.
• n. (uncountable) Pottery or metal goods.
• n. (countable, archaeology) A style or genre of artifact.
• n. (Ireland) Crockery.
• v. (obsolete or dialectal) To be ware or mindful of something.
• v. (obsolete) To protect or guard (especially oneself); to be on guard, be wary.
• adj. (obsolete) wary; cautious.
• n. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) seaweed.
• v. (nautical) To wear, or veer.