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

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

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

If this young man should be a revenuer she might have done a harm incalculable by guiding him along the secret mountain byways which they had been travelling.

From In Old Kentucky by Marshall, Edward

When Lem's parents had been killed by the revenuer, then it was that an inexorable avowal had resolved itself in the soul of Belle-Ann.

From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by MacDonald, Everett

The revenuer knew that he could count himself lucky to get away alive now, far less drag a prisoner; even at that moment desperate men were hurrying to answer the call of that church-bell.

From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by MacDonald, Everett