Definition of moonshiner
: a maker or seller of illicit whiskey
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After a 14-year-old girl’s older brother seemingly dies in an apparent drowning, a group of moonshiners offer to bring him back, but only if the girl kills someone else.
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Her moral struggle, as well as the mysterious origins of the moonshiners, provide much of the drama for this film, which combines elements of mystery in its genre thrills.
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In 2012, an article in Carlsbad Magazine quoted Kentner’s son, Ed Jr., talking about rum runners and moonshiners making deliveries to the building during Prohibition.
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Boise police worked with federal, state and county officers in tracking down and arresting moonshiners and runners.
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This private cavern in Childersburg has been used by Native Americans, moonshiners, and mined for Civil War gunpowder.
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Rather than figuring out elaborate ways of sneaking alcohol past federal dragnets, the moonshiners took a direct approach.
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When both jail cells are full with moonshiners, the only place for Otis to be confined was at Andy’s house.
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His idol was the hard-living moonshiner-cum-NASCAR driver Curtis Turner.
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First Known Use of moonshiner
1860
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