Usually means: Ship designed to evade blockades.
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  1. blockade-runner: Merriam-Webster
  2. blockade runner: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. blockade-runner: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. blockade runner: Collins English Dictionary
  5. blockade-runner: Vocabulary.com
  6. blockade-runner: Wordnik
  7. blockade runner: Wiktionary
  8. blockade-runner: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. blockade-runner, blockade runner: Dictionary.com
  10. Blockade runner: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. blockade-runner: Rhymezone
  12. blockade-runner: FreeDictionary.org
  13. blockade-runner: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. blockade-runner, blockade runner: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (blockade runner)

▸ noun:  A vehicle, typically a naval one, with the purpose of bringing cargo across a military blockade.

Similar:
stopblock, conbulker, bulker, block train, bulk carrier, collier, battlecruiser, bowrider, battlecarrier, battlewagon, more...

Opposite:
blockade maker, blockade setter, blockade builder, blockade creator

Types:
smuggler, privateer, corsair, pirate, rum runner, bootlegger, more...

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Similar:
stopblock, conbulker, bulker, block train, bulk carrier, collier, battlecruiser, bowrider, battlecarrier, battlewagon, more...

Opposite:
blockade maker, blockade setter, blockade builder, blockade creator

Types:
smuggler, privateer, corsair, pirate, rum runner, bootlegger, more...



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