under-the-counter

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under-the-counter

adjective

  1. Illicit, obtained or sold furtively. The village shop seemed to be a bastion of respectability but those in the know could obtain some very questionable under-the-counter material.

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@misc{under_the_counter_2026,
  title = {under-the-counter},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/under-the-counter},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}