English English Dictionary

Illegal or prohibited traffic.

Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of which is forbidden.

A negro slave, during the Civil War, escaped to, or was brought within, the Union lines. Such slave was considered contraband of war.

Prohibited or excluded by law or treaty; forbidden; as, contraband goods, or trade.

To import illegally, as prohibited goods; to smuggle.

To declare prohibited; to forbid.