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moonshiner

[ moon-shahy-ner ]

noun

Informal.
  1. a person who distills or sells liquor, especially corn liquor, illegally.
  2. a person who pursues any illegal trade or activity at night.


moonshiner

/ ˈːˌʃɪə /

noun

  1. a person who illegally makes or smuggles distilled spirits
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of moonshiner1

An Americanism dating back to 1855–60; moonshine + -er 1
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With its clean rivers and remote locations, the area also became a haven for moonshiners who set up stills in the heavily forested hills.

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This one is an action-packed tale centered on a powerful family of moonshiners in 1920s Virginia, and it’s filled with enough dead bodies, doomed romances and sudden betrayals to make you wonder if George R.R.

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Her husband, then 21, was a moonshiner who owned the only car in the hollow, an Army Jeep.

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First there’s that of Eliot Ness — a minor police celebrity fresh from defeating Al Capone in Chicago and seasoned from his sojourn battling moonshiners in Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee — who arrives in Cleveland in 1934.

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Logically, moonshiners enlisted the best drivers to transport alcohol illegally.

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