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revenuer

American

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

noun

Informal.

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

revenuer British

/ ˈrɛvɪˌnjuːə /

noun

slang a revenue officer or cutter

"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

Etymology

Origin of revenuer

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

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revenuer

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

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 Everett MacDonald

He regards the "revenuer" as the representative of acute and cruel injustice and oppression.

From In Old Kentucky by Edward Marshall

He mought be a revenuer arter all, an' know all about me.

From The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories by Mary Noailles Murfree

If there is anything that the mountain-born hates worse than a revenuer, it is a shotgun.

From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by Everett MacDonald

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