moonshiner

English

Etymology

From moonshine +‎ -er.

Noun

moonshiner (plural moonshiners)

1. Someone who makes or distributes moonshine (illicit alcohol).

   Synonyms: (clipped) shiner; (rare) moonlighter

   Antonym: revenuer

   Hypernyms: smuggler < outlaw, criminal

   Near-synonyms: bootlegger; rum-runner

   • 2007 May 27, Vincent Cosgrove, “Bullets in the Beer? Eliot Ness Must Be Back”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Ness was assigned to track down moonshiners, then accepted the position of public safety director in Cleveland — not the stuff of a two-fisted series about G-men taking on the Mafia and various crazed outlaws of the period.

Translations

someone who makes or distributes moonshine

• Italian: distillatore m, distillatrice f
• Polish: bimbrarz m (uncommon), bimbrownik (pl) m, bimbrowniczka f
• Russian: самого́нщик (ru) m (samogónščik), самого́нщица (ru) f (samogónščica)