Definitions from Wiktionary (under the counter)
▸ adverb: Illicitly, against regulations, of goods kept under the serving counter in a shop to be unobtrusively passed to a customer who knows they are available for surreptitious sale (e.g. pornographic magazines in a newsagent).
▸ adjective: (British, Ireland, colloquial) In an underhand way, sneakily; unofficially, particularly with regard to payment or tax avoidance.
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▸ adverb: Illicitly, against regulations, of goods kept under the serving counter in a shop to be unobtrusively passed to a customer who knows they are available for surreptitious sale (e.g. pornographic magazines in a newsagent).
▸ adjective: (British, Ireland, colloquial) In an underhand way, sneakily; unofficially, particularly with regard to payment or tax avoidance.
Similar:
illegal,
in flagrante delicto,
in flagrante,
in flagrant delict,
flagrante delicto,
counter,
ex facie,
contra,
scienter,
naughtly,
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