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beer baron

n. Somebody who organises the illegal production and sale of beer during a time of Prohibition.

Usage examples of "beer baron".

Both architectural additions dated from the same time, both installed by a nineteenth-century beer baron to indulge his favourite pastimes.

It matched the Garrett shooting for boldness and showed the gangsters on both squads that the beer baron from the Bronx would not accept anything less than a complete victory.

I saw the Horatio Alger hero, the dream of a sick American, mounting higher and -higher, first messenger, then operator, then manager, then chief, then superintendent, then vice-president, then president, then trust magnate, then beer baron, then Lord of all the Americas, the money god, the god of gods, the clay of clay, nullity on high, zero with ninety-seven thousand decimals fore and aft.

The gloomy billiards room with its mahogany panelling was unchanged since being furnished to the taste of a nineteenth-century beer baron.

Her late husband, a beer baron whose breweries and pubs were scattered widely over the broad bosom of Yorkshire had left her a vast fortune and a beautiful house on the outskirts of Darrowby.