revenuer
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 8
Definition of revenuer
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(US, historical, regional)A government official who enforces laws prohibiting the illegal distillation of alcohol.
“‘Mister, if yo're another revenuer, I kin tell ye y'aint gonna leave this valley alive.’”
“I don’t know, but I should start by gettin’ me a rifle: we got the reveneurs a-comin’.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From revenue + -er, reflecting the U.S. Treasury Department's former Bureau of Internal Revenue (a predecessor of the IRS and ATF), because the administrative mechanism for enforcing Prohibition originated in excise tax administration; Wikipedia gives details at Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives § History.
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