rum runners
Prohibition-era smugglers
Rum runners were people who smuggled alcoholic beverages, especially during Prohibition in the United States (1920–1933).
The term evokes speedboats outrunning Coast Guard vessels and trucks crossing the Canadian border at night.
By extension, rum runner can describe any alcohol smuggler: His grandfather was a rum runner during Prohibition.
- smugglerIllegal goods transporter
- bootleggingIllegal alcohol production/sale
- prohibitionAuthoritative legal ban
- moonshineIllegally distilled spirits
- bootleg liquorIllegally produced alcohol
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- Prohibition EraProhibition, bootleggers, bootlegging, bootlegger, speakeasies
- ProhibitionProhibition, speakeasies, bootlegger, bootleggers, speakeasy
- sea talespirate story, sea stories, sea story, mermaid tale, ghost ships
- drink historybootleggers, moonshine, speakeasies, temperance movement, 18th Amendment
- Long IslandLong Island, Huntington, Hempstead, Montauk, Babylon
- piracysoftware piracy, pirates, torrents, book piracy, buccaneers
enforcement vs. evasion
rum runnersrevenuers
Slang for tax collectors
Coast Guard · Eliot Ness · The Untouchables · customs officers · federal agents