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the entrepreneur who treats borders as a suggestion and customs as a vibe check
means A person who secretly and illegally transports goods or people across a border to avoid taxes, duties, or laws.
from From the Low German or Dutch 'smuggeln' (to transport illicitly), a cousin of Old Norse 'smjuga' — to creep through a hole or wriggle into a tight space. The word slipped into English in the late 1600s alongside a booming trade in untaxed tea, brandy, and tobacco, and you can still feel that wriggling, slinking-through-the-gap sense buried in the root.
- oldest trick
- salt and silk smuggling predates most modern nations
- hollow heels
- shoes have hidden gems, drugs, and microfilm for centuries
- rum runners
- Prohibition turned booze smugglers into folk legends
- tunnel vision
- cartels build air-conditioned tunnels under the US border
- birds too
- pigeons have been caught smuggling drugs between prisons
for instance
al capone — bootlegger who smuggled alcohol during prohibition in chicago, 1920s-1931
felicity arbuthnott — british aid worker convicted of smuggling medical supplies to syria in 2012