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

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

Indeed, at this instant, there was no more evidence of excitement in Lem's face and mien, than had the revenuer been a venturesome fox squirrel gamboling about.

From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by MacDonald, Everett

He told ther revenuer fust-off an' then warned me atterwards.

From The Tempering by Buck, Charles Neville