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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