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Webster 1913 Edition


Moonshiner

Moon′shinˊer

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Noun.
A person engaged in illicit distilling; – so called because the work is largely done at night.
[Cant, U.S.]

Definition 2024


moonshiner

moonshiner

English

Noun

moonshiner (plural moonshiners)

  1. Someone who makes or distributes moonshine
    • 2007 May 27, Vincent Cosgrove, “Bullets in the Beer? Eliot Ness Must Be Back”, in New York Times:
      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.