rumrunner

• Sustantivo que designa a una persona que transporta ilegalmente bebidas alcohólicas, especialmente ron, a través de una frontera o hacia un territorio donde está prohibido su comercio, a menudo durante la época de la ley seca.

A noun referring to a person who illegally smuggles alcoholic beverages, especially rum, across a border or into a prohibition area.

1. Illegal liquor smugglerC1informalamerican

   A person who transports or smuggles alcoholic beverages illegally, especially across a border.

   contrabandista de licor

   • During Prohibition, rumrunners used fast boats to evade the coast guard.
   • The rumrunner was caught with a cargo of whiskey near the Canadian border.
   • Many rumrunners became wealthy by supplying speakeasies with illegal alcohol.

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