The road ends at Upper Killeyan, but it is worth walking the last mile to the coast, once the favourite haunt of smugglers and moonshiners.
Later I discovered he had been a bootlegger and moonshiner during prohibition and had gone to live on the mountain to flee a gang who thought he owed them money.
There is, of course, the town drunk, Otis, who acquires bootleg liquor from various moonshiners in that dry county on a regular basis and regularly celebrates the anniversary of his first drink.
They relish telling stories about moonshiners, smugglers, and contraband runners who successfully fool and evade federal agents.
During Prohibition, John remembered, ‘most moonshiners were respectable people.’
Definition of moonshiner in US English:
moonshiner
nounˈmo͞onˌSHīnərˈmunˌʃaɪnər
informal
An illicit distiller or smuggler of liquor.
〈非正式，主北美〉非法酿酒商；酒类走私者
Example sentencesExamples
The road ends at Upper Killeyan, but it is worth walking the last mile to the coast, once the favourite haunt of smugglers and moonshiners.
They relish telling stories about moonshiners, smugglers, and contraband runners who successfully fool and evade federal agents.
There is, of course, the town drunk, Otis, who acquires bootleg liquor from various moonshiners in that dry county on a regular basis and regularly celebrates the anniversary of his first drink.
During Prohibition, John remembered, ‘most moonshiners were respectable people.’
Later I discovered he had been a bootlegger and moonshiner during prohibition and had gone to live on the mountain to flee a gang who thought he owed them money.