gunrunning
noun
the smuggling of guns or other ammunition into a country.
gunrunner
-
a word derived from
gunrunning.
Example Sentences
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The song is a biography of Captain Tony himself, the late Anthony Tarracino, a shrimper and a gambler and a gunrunner who ran for mayor of Key West and won.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2022
“I had not realized that the plane was there to this day,” said Stephen Braun, the co-author of a book on the gunrunner called “Merchant of Death.”
From Seattle Times ● May 27, 2022
Wagers introduced readers to Hail Bristol, a gunrunner who inherited the thrown of the Indrana empire.
From The Verge ● Oct. 1, 2018
In the Martin Scorsese-produced shoot ’em up “Free Fire,” South African actor Sharlto Copley plays Vern, a narcissistic gunrunner in a polyester suit who’s prone to a certain behavioral grandiloquence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2017
Keep a tame gunrunner to work for 'em—that sounds like th' tricky sorta play they cotton to.
From Rebel Spurs by Andre Norton
