under-the-counter
短语a. 私下出售的, 开后门的, 暗中成交的, 违法的, 禁止的
释义与例句
adj.
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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.
1973, Robert Wallace Winslow, Crime in a Free Society: Selections from the President's Commission on Law Traffic and distribution of under-the-counter materials appears to be a very minor ... The total market in under-the-counter materials is estimated to be ...
1988, Gordon Hawkins and Franklin E. Zimring, Pornography in a Free Society, of material classified as "under-the-counter" was being openly exhibited and openly sold.