Definitions for revenuer

revenuer rev·e·nu·er

Spelling: [rev-uh n-yoo-er, -uh-noo-]
IPA: /ˈrɛv ənˌyu ər, -əˌnu-/

Revenuer is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 73 anagrams from letters in revenuer (eeenrruv).

Definitions for revenuer

noun

  1. an agent of the U.S. Treasury Department, especially one whose responsibility is to enforce laws against illegal distilling or bootlegging of alcoholic liquor.

Origin of revenuer

An Americanism dating back to 1875-80; revenue + -er1

Examples for revenuer

Her soul trembled now lest the revenuer had killed Lem instead.

His one apprehension was of the common enemy, the "revenuer."

Could you ask a more bitter punishment for the revenuer than what you saw to-night?

As he stared into the revenuer's insolent face, the earth looked like a pinwheel.

He landed on the revenuer's neck and with his naked hands he tried to kill him.

Left alone, the revenuer realized that his guide had gone back to assure himself that no spies were following at a distance.

The revenuer perceived this and thrust the rifle muzzle closer.

The irony of it was deeply excruciating—that he, their chieftain, should succumb to a revenuer.

If there is anything that the mountain-born hates worse than a revenuer, it is a shotgun.

When the revenuer paused silence lay upon the place until he himself broke it.

Word Value for revenuer
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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