| 单词 | rum-running |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrum-running rum-running n. the action of smuggling or trafficking illegal or prohibited liquor (frequently attributive). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > illegal or immoral trading > [noun] > smuggling > of certain goods or provisions owling1698 woollinga1722 gun-running1883 drug trafficking1912 rum-running1916 1916 Munsey's Mag. July 259/1 From fur-trading, through cod-fishing, rum-running, and slave-dealing, to the modern matters of railway-shares and Standard Oil, there had always been a Scammons, severely respectable and inevitably prospering. 1926 Scribner's Mag. Aug. 166/2 Tully—an old friend of mine, in the rum-running game now—will get you over the line into Canada. 1959 N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 65 With the things he'd done, the Marines in Nicaragua,..rumrunning in New Orleans, somehow he'd kinda forgotten that you stood a chance of dying too. 2005 K. C. Krahulik Provincetown ii. iv. 114 Residents sometimes caught a glimpse of the covert rum-running activity just off the coast. < as lemmas |
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