moonshinerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

moonshiner (plural moonshiners)

1. Someone who makes or distributes moonshine (illicit alcohol).

   Synonyms: (clipped) shiner; (rare) moonlighter

   Antonym: revenuer

   Hypernyms: smuggler < outlaw, criminal

   Near-synonyms: bootlegger; rum-runner

   • 2007 May 27, Vincent Cosgrove, “Bullets in the Beer? Eliot Ness Must Be Back”, in New York Times‎:

     Ness was assigned to track down moonshiners, then accepted the position of public safety director in Cleveland — not the stuff of a two-fisted series about G-men taking on the Mafia and various crazed outlaws of the period.