run booze

verb, to smuggle alcohol across the U.S.-Canadian border during Prohibition; see also booze running, rum running

“They run booze. They’d run booze. And he said that they would work all day on the motors on the boats. That’s what the mechanics’d do. They’d work all day on them motors to tune them all up maybe just for one run.”

“They all were like their own mechanics, and they would put this big motor in a small boat that would carry quite a lot of stuff though. And he said they could go like hell. And then the next day if something went bad on it, the next day they’d work on it all day and run all night. ’Cause you didn’t run booze until 2:00-3:00 in the morning.”