moonshiner
nounEtymology From moonshine + -er.
1
Someone who makes or distributes moonshine (illicit alcohol).
- Near-synonyms: bootlegger; rum-runner
- 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.2007 May 27, Vincent Cosgrove, “Bullets in the Beer? Eliot Ness Must Be Back”, in New York Times: