英语词汇“rum-chaser”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

rum-chaser n. U.S. (a) colloquial a person who habitually drinks rum; = rumhound n. (a) (rare); (b) (during the Prohibition era) a law enforcement agent who pursues rum runners; (c) (during the Prohibition era) a coastguard speedboat used for pursuing rum-smugglers or their ships.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels with other specific uses > [noun] > vessel used by customs authorities > for pursuing rum-runners

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1915 Boston Globe 26 Dec. 27/7 Jess is a good man... Only you jest wait a couple o' years or two an' see whether he kin come back or not: don't make no difference jest because he ain't no rum-chaser.

1920 Evening Republican (Mitchell, S. Dakota) 28 Dec. 1/5 (heading) Rum chasers spot 48 in big raid on camp.

1922 N.Y. Times Index July–Sept. 151/1 Asks for appropriation for fast boats for rum chasers.

1931 D. Runyon in Cosmopolitan May 64/2 She is riding in a big foreign automobile the size of a rum-chaser.

1982 W. L. Heat Moon Blue Highways ix. vi. 366 The deep river..had seen Indian canoes, Revolutionary War privateers, whaling ships, Coast Guard rum-chasers, and three generations of submarines.

2005 Chattanooga Times Free Press (Nexis) 30 Dec. h2 The Dec. 30, 1924, Chattanooga Daily Times ran a story about 40 rum chasers ‘armed with machine guns, rifles and sidearms’.

单词	rum-chaser
释义	> as lemmas rum-chaser rum-chaser n. U.S. (a) colloquial a person who habitually drinks rum; = rumhound n. (a) (rare); (b) (during the Prohibition era) a law enforcement agent who pursues rum runners; (c) (during the Prohibition era) a coastguard speedboat used for pursuing rum-smugglers or their ships. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels with other specific uses > [noun] > vessel used by customs authorities > for pursuing rum-runners rum-chaser1915 1915 Boston Globe 26 Dec. 27/7 Jess is a good man... Only you jest wait a couple o' years or two an' see whether he kin come back or not: don't make no difference jest because he ain't no rum-chaser. 1920 Evening Republican (Mitchell, S. Dakota) 28 Dec. 1/5 (heading) Rum chasers spot 48 in big raid on camp. 1922 N.Y. Times Index July–Sept. 151/1 Asks for appropriation for fast boats for rum chasers. 1931 D. Runyon in Cosmopolitan May 64/2 She is riding in a big foreign automobile the size of a rum-chaser. 1982 W. L. Heat Moon Blue Highways ix. vi. 366 The deep river..had seen Indian canoes, Revolutionary War privateers, whaling ships, Coast Guard rum-chasers, and three generations of submarines. 2005 Chattanooga Times Free Press (Nexis) 30 Dec. h2 The Dec. 30, 1924, Chattanooga Daily Times ran a story about 40 rum chasers ‘armed with machine guns, rifles and sidearms’. extracted from rumn.² < as lemmas
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