revenuer

American  

[rev-uhn-yoo-er, -uh-noo-] / ˈrɛv ənˌyu ər, -əˌnu- /

noun

Informal.

1. an agent of the U.S. Treasury Department, especially one whose responsibility is to enforce laws against illegal distilling or bootlegging of alcoholic liquor.

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revenuer British  

/ ˈrɛvɪˌnjuːə /

noun

1. slang a revenue officer or cutter

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Etymology

Origin of revenuer

An Americanism dating back to 1875–80; revenue + -er ¹

Example Sentences

One crisis came when Grandfather John Canada Jenkins, a revenuer known to his friends as "Can," came to Tellico Plains with his second bride.

From Time Magazine Archive

In his private time capsule, the arrival of the mail and the ice peddler or�evil day �the revenuer become the rituals of an obscure epoch.

From Time Magazine Archive

Suddenly the film lifted from his brain and he was conscious for the first time that the revenuer had taken his rifle.

From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by MacDonald, Everett

He knew that the old man would come out of the church dragging the revenuer after him—hauling the thing as he had seen him haul a half-dead, struggling bear.

From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by MacDonald, Everett

An' that's jes' the way Briscoe planned it: ter send the revenuer down an hour by sun with the dog-cart an' his fine mare.

From The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee by Duer, Douglas