Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word rum-runners.
Examples
-
Because of its strategic location on the seaboard, the town was a hub of activity for rum-runners, minutes from Philadelphia, hours from New York City and less than a dayʼs drive from Chicago.
New ‘Boardwalk Empire’ Trailer, Official Synopsis Released 2010
-
* Wheeler was somewhat milder here than he had been a few months earlier, when he claimed that Butler supported a program “soaked in avarice, lust, and rum,” and that he belonged “with the boot-leggers, rum-runners, owners of speak-easy property, wet newspapers, underworld denizens, alcoholic slaves and personal liberty fanatics in his fight to bring back booze.”
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
-
* Wheeler was somewhat milder here than he had been a few months earlier, when he claimed that Butler supported a program “soaked in avarice, lust, and rum,” and that he belonged “with the boot-leggers, rum-runners, owners of speak-easy property, wet newspapers, underworld denizens, alcoholic slaves and personal liberty fanatics in his fight to bring back booze.”
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
-
Why does our Navy need to be engaged in the Arabian Sea interdicting rum-runners see Update?
-
He'd heard that these backwoods were infested with rum-runners and hijackers, a cutthroat gang.
"Terrors Unseen" by Harl Vincent, part 6 Johnny Pez 2008
-
When we brought the Liberty about and came back in to the city I saw the Castillo de San Marcos from the waterside, just as pirates, privateers, rum-runners and other nautical riff-raff have seen it for hundreds of years.
Archive 2008-07-01 Darlene 2008
-
When we brought the Liberty about and came back in to the city I saw the Castillo de San Marcos from the waterside, just as pirates, privateers, rum-runners and other nautical riff-raff have seen it for hundreds of years.
Darlene's Digest Darlene 2008
-
He'd heard that these backwoods were infested with rum-runners and hijackers, a cutthroat gang.
Archive 2008-12-01 Johnny Pez 2008
-
And Canadian whiskey merchants and rum-runners went out of business.
Archive 2008-04-01 Dana 2008
-
I knew we were going to order two rum-runners, move onto the beach, and sit, Indian-style, looking at each other, waiting for the other to make a verbal turn onto Lifestyle Avenue.
Same Sex in the City Lauren Levin 2006
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.