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revenuer U.S.|ˈrɛvəˌnjuːə(r)|
[f. revenue + -er1.]
A revenue agent.
1880Daily Inter-Ocean (Chicago) 1 June 12/1 His wife and daughter discharged their conjugal and filial duty by..watching from their home for the approach of the ‘Revenyors’. 1895‘C. E. Craddock’ Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain 15 The ‘revenuers’..never rode alone. 1941Charlottesville (Va.) Daily Progress 16 Aug. 1/5 The sharp rise in sugar and grain prices, coupled with the increased efforts of the ‘revenooers’ to ferret out the distilling outfits in the mountains have made it too perilous for most of the old-timers. 1949Américas Aug. 10/1 The ‘revenoo-ers’ slowed the production of illegal whiskey. 1955W. Faulkner Fable 173 The sheriff..and the city strangers in their city hats and neckties and shoes, smelling, stinking of excise officers, revenuers. 1963Times 19 Mar. 10/7 The ‘revenuer’ keeps track of large sales of sugar. 1974W. Garner Big enough Wreath x. 131 Moonshiner, made his own likker..scared stiff of being caught by the revenuers. 1974New Yorker 3 June 43/2 Jon tried to persuade Anne and Ruth to take their bathing suits off... ‘Listen, as long as we're back up here where the revenooers can't get at us, we might as well have a good time.’ |