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the world's oldest workaround, moving things faster than laws can chase them.
means The act of secretly moving goods or people across a border or into a place, dodging laws, taxes, or guards in the process.
from From the Low German or Dutch 'smuggeln,' meaning to sneak or move stealthily — likely a cousin of words tied to creeping and slipping out of sight. It washed into English from the seafaring trade with the Low Countries around the 17th century, fittingly arriving by the same coastal routes that smugglers themselves loved to work.
tea revoltBritain's tea tax birthed massive 1700s smuggling fleets.
tunnel craftSome border tunnels feature rails, lighting, and ventilation systems.
book ban eraBanned literature was smuggled into Soviet states as samizdat.
swallowed cargoCouriers ingest sealed packets to cross checkpoints undetected.
spice empiresNutmeg smuggling broke a Dutch monopoly worth fortunes.