moonshine runners
Illegal whiskey transporters
Moonshine runners were drivers who transported illegally distilled whiskey, especially during Prohibition and in the rural American South.
They modified cars for speed and handling to outrun law enforcement on back roads at night.
The skills and souped-up vehicles developed by moonshine runners directly influenced the origins of NASCAR stock car racing.
- whiskeyOak-aged grain spirit
- prohibitionAuthoritative legal ban
- hoochIllicit liquor, slangily
- smugglersIllegal goods transporters
- backroadsSecondary rural routes
county line · souped-up · NASCAR · Appalachia · mason jars · copper stills · hillbilly · good ol' boys · back roads · getaway · outlaw · speakeasy · corn liquor · dust · headlights · chase · high-speed chase · sheriff
- Hicksploitationgood ol' boy, bootleggers, good old boys, Southern Gothic
- Southern folklorehaint, conjure, root work, root doctor, root doctors
moonshine runnersrevenuers
Slang for tax collectors
Eliot Ness · revenue agents · federal agents · law enforcement · sheriffs
moon, shine, runner, runners, moons, mooned, mooning, moonlit, moonlight