rum runner

noun, N. Amer., person or ship engaged in smuggling alcohol esp. during Prohibition (COD); see also booze running, run booze, rum running

“That was quite a life to be a rum runner. You made a lot of money.”

“Booze running and all that sort of stuff, I mean that was a big, big thing.”
“Rum runners.”
“The rum runners, yeah.”

“I just finished a book, and I’m trying to think of the name of it, about the rum runners.”