contrabandist vs crook

contrabandist and crook both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
contrabandist	Yes	No	No	No
crook	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, crook is a hypernym of contrabandist; that is, crook is a word with a broader meaning than contrabandist:

contrabandist: someone who imports or exports without paying duties
crook: someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime

Other hypernyms of contrabandist include criminal, felon, malefactor, outlaw.

contrabandist (noun)	crook (noun)
someone who imports or exports without paying duties	a long staff with one end being hook shaped
	someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
	a circular segment of a curve

contrabandist (verb)	crook (verb)
	bend or cause to bend