Definition of contraband

• n. - Illegal or prohibited traffic.
• n. - Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of which is forbidden.
• n. - A negro slave, during the Civil War, escaped to, or was brought within, the Union lines. Such slave was considered contraband of war.
• a. - Prohibited or excluded by law or treaty; forbidden; as, contraband goods, or trade.
• v. t. - To import illegally, as prohibited goods; to smuggle.
• v. t. - To declare prohibited; to forbid.