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English
Etymology
From moonshine + -er.
Noun
moonshiner (plural moonshiners)
- 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: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