revenuer
Moonshiner's dreaded visitor
A revenuer is a government agent who enforces tax laws, especially one who hunted illegal liquor operations in rural America.
The term carries a whiff of Appalachian moonshine culture, where revenuers were the enemy—federal agents raiding stills and arresting bootleggers: The revenuers came up the holler looking for Papa's still.
Illegally distilled spirits
- stillUnmoving, or continuing
- raidSudden armed incursion
- bootleggerIllegal liquor trafficker
- ProhibitionConstitutional alcohol ban era
federal · agent · seizure · arrest · contraband · bust · warrant · undercover
moonshine
Illegally distilled spirits
- stillUnmoving, or continuing
- raidSudden armed incursion
- bootleggerIllegal liquor trafficker
Prohibition · federal · agent · seizure · arrest · contraband · bust · warrant · undercover · informant
hillbilly
Rural mountain dweller stereotype
Tennessee · Ozarks · backwoods · cabin · shotgun · feud · outsider · government · intrusion · distrust
excise
Remove by cutting
duty · tariff · levy · collection · evasion · smuggling · untaxed · liquor · spirits · distillery
revenuerbootlegger
Illegal liquor trafficker
moonshiner · rum-runner · outlaw · tax evader · hillbilly
- tax revenueGovernment's collected funds
- revenue streamContinuous source of earnings
- Internal Revenue ServiceFederal tax collection agency
- ad revenueIncome from paid promotions
- advertising revenueEarnings from selling promotions
- revenue sharingDistributing income among stakeholders