under the counter
See also: under-the-counter
English
Alternative forms
Adverb
under the counter (comparative more under the counter, superlative most under the counter)
- 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).
- 1969 The Seven Minutes: A Novel - Page 157 by Irving Wallace
- Oh, yeah, I remember, you mean about me not trying to sell from under the counter?
- 2004, James Carlos Blake, Under the Skin, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 55,
- When Prohibition became the law, they produced the stuff in greater quantity and sold it under the counter to anybody who wanted it.
- 1969 The Seven Minutes: A Novel - Page 157 by Irving Wallace
Translations
illicitly
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Adjective
under the counter (comparative more under the counter, superlative most under the counter)
Translations
unofficially
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