单词 | rum fleet |
释义 | > as lemmasrum fleet rum fleet n. U.S. (now historical) (during the Prohibition era) a fleet of ships used for smuggling rum. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > trading vessel > [noun] > smuggling > rum > fleet of rum fleet1920 1920 News (Frederick, Maryland) 27 Aug. 8/2 (headline) All wrong with rum fleet. 1975 J. Gores Hammett xvi. 113 Dom brings in most of the real Canadian from the rum fleet these days. 1996 Florida Times-Union (Nexis) 8 June 3 From California came the news that ships of the rum fleet were using large fish nets to submerge cargoes of hooch when federal cutters approached. < as lemmas |
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