moonshiner
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]moonshiner (plural moonshiners)
- Someone who makes or distributes moonshine (illicit alcohol).
- Synonyms: (clipped) shiner; (rare) moonlighter
- 2007 May 27, Vincent Cosgrove, “Bullets in the Beer? Eliot Ness Must Be Back”, in New York Times[1]:
- Ness was assigned to track down moonshiners, then accepted the position of public safety director in Cleveland — not the stuff of a two-fisted series about G-men taking on the Mafia and various crazed outlaws of the period.
Translations
[edit]someone who makes or distributes moonshine
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