under the counter
Things bought under the counter are bought secretly and illegally:
The kids managed to get cigarettes under the counter.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Buying & selling - general words
- all-you-can-eat
- barter
- black market
- bottom
- brokerage
- channel
- cold-calling
- desk research
- first refusal
- high street
- hock
- market share
- pawn
- pay
- supply and demand idiom
- the grey market
- trade
- trade route
- trading
- transaction
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