smokkel, verb
- Origin:
- AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, to deal in illicit goods, smuggle.
slang
1. transitive. rare. To get the better of, confuse (someone or something).
1946 Cape Times in E. Partridge Dict. of Underworld (1950) 646Smokkel the peace, To infringe the law.
1990 Style June 113Bumstead immediately arranged the three worst degenerates he could find..to act as guides on the trip. One group, he points out, would definitely have ‘smokkeled the other group’s heads’, thus providing a source of ‘neverending amusement’ to see who came out on top.
2.
a. intransitive. To do illicit business, to ‘deal’. See also smokkelhuis.
1973 Informant, George, Eastern CapeThey say they smokkel in that house down there, so there’s coming and going all the time.
1977 D. Muller Whitey 44‘We know you. We know that you smokkel here!’ the cop snapped, at length. ‘We know that these skolly bastards gather here and buy wine!’
To get the better of, confuse (someone or something).
To do illicit business, to ‘deal’.
To sell (illicit drugs).
- Derivatives:
- Hence smokkelaar noun, a smuggler or dealer in illicit liquor; smokkeling verbal noun (also attributive).1977 D. Muller Whitey 32The back gate remained closed, for there was a lull in the smokkeling business. By this time the legal bottle-stores would be open, and the ‘mailers’ — the runners from shebeens big and small — would be at the counters, buying supplies for the long-week-end-thirst.1985 Argus 24 Aug. 1This was part of a three-year battle between the Kapedi gang and a rival group of ‘smokkelaars’.
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