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

Now, Lutts," resumed the revenuer with his bullying insolence, "you've got one chance, and if you could see what's ahead of you, you'd take it quick!

From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by MacDonald, Everett

The irony of it was deeply excruciating—that he, their chieftain, should succumb to a revenuer.

From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by MacDonald, Everett

It was the revenuer come back in the hour of his extremity.

From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by MacDonald, Everett