DCHP-2
whisky peddler † Hist. DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a person trading or selling whisky, especially as an illicit business, to the Indians.
See also: whisky trader
- 1923 So he came in touch with all the vice, wretchedness and stark tragedy abounding in the tent-towns and construction camps. He knew all the thieves, 'rollers,' roughs, shell-game experts, whiskey-peddlers, and ladies of doubtful reputation by sight and most of them by name.
- 1953 The white population consisted of a handful of fur traders, frontier badmen, and a few vicious whisky-peddlers, with their rotgut and blaze-belly.
- 1923 So he came in touch with all the vice, wretchedness and stark tragedy abounding in the tent-towns and construction camps. He knew all the thieves, 'rollers,' roughs, shell-game experts, whiskey-peddlers, and ladies of doubtful reputation by sight and most of them by name.