revenuers
Moonshine raid squad
Revenuers are government agents who enforce tax laws, especially those targeting illegal liquor production.
The term dates to Prohibition and earlier, when federal agents raided moonshine stills in Appalachia: The revenuers found his still up in the hollow.
The word carries a rural, Southern flavor and implies outsider government interference.
Rarely used outside historical or regional contexts.
Illicit liquor establishment
- 18th AmendmentConstitutional liquor ban
- temperanceHabitual moderation in behavior
- Roaring TwentiesProsperous 1920s era
- bootleggersIllicit liquor traffickers
flappers · jazz age · Al Capone · Eliot Ness · The Untouchables · bathtub gin · rum-running · prohibitionist
Unmoving, or continuing
- corn liquorSpirit distilled from maize
- white lightningIllicit homemade corn whiskey
- hoochIllicit liquor, slangily
- backwoodsRemote, undeveloped rural area
Appalachia · mash · distillery · copper pot · clandestine · rotgut · poteen · hillbilly
Sudden armed incursion
- agentsThose who act for others
- seizureForcible taking or convulsion
- confiscationSeizure by authority
- crackdownSudden strict enforcement
arrests · pursuit · capture · surveillance · investigation · squad · taskforce · interdiction
Stored organizational funds
- IRSFederal tax collector
- taxmanGovernment revenue collector
- collectorOne who gathers items
- exciseRemove by cutting
tariff · duties · auditor · federal agents · tax evasion · liquor tax · levy · assessment
speakeasy
Illicit liquor establishment
- 18th AmendmentConstitutional liquor ban
- temperanceHabitual moderation in behavior
- Roaring TwentiesProsperous 1920s era
bootleggers · flappers · jazz age · Al Capone · Eliot Ness · The Untouchables · bathtub gin · rum-running · prohibitionist · teetotaler
still
Unmoving, or continuing
- corn liquorSpirit distilled from maize
- white lightningIllicit homemade corn whiskey
- hoochIllicit liquor, slangily
backwoods · Appalachia · mash · distillery · copper pot · clandestine · rotgut · poteen · hillbilly · hollow
raid
Sudden armed incursion
- agentsThose who act for others
- seizureForcible taking or convulsion
- confiscationSeizure by authority
crackdown · arrests · pursuit · capture · surveillance · investigation · squad · taskforce · interdiction · bust
treasury
Stored organizational funds
excise · tariff · duties · auditor · federal agents · tax evasion · liquor tax · levy · assessment · Whiskey Rebellion
- Prohibition EraProhibition, bootleggers, bootlegging, bootlegger, speakeasies
- ProhibitionProhibition, speakeasies, bootlegger, bootleggers, speakeasy
- moonshinemoonshine, moonshiner, white lightning, hooch, bootleg
- Lawmensheriff, constable, marshal, deputy, lawman
revenuersmoonshiners
Unlicensed alcohol producers
bootleggers · shiners · rum runners · blockaders · distillers
revenuersmoonshiners
Unlicensed alcohol producers
tax evaders · hillbillies · anti-federalists · sovereign citizens · free traders
- 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