smuggle someone or something out

smuggle someone or something out
smuggle someone or something out of some place & smuggle someone or something out
to move someone or something across a border out of a place illegally and in secret. •

Judy smuggled her cousin out of the country in a van.

She smuggled out her cousin.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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