beer baron

noun

A prominent owner of a large-scale beer brewing enterprise.

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Meanings

nounbeer baron (plural beer barons)

plural beer barons

  1. A prominent owner of a large-scale beer brewing enterprise.

    He was everything you expected an old time beer baron to be. He was a hard task master, tough and he expected everyone else to work hard.

    1987, Keith Dunstan, The Amber Nectar, Ringwood: Vicking O'Neil, page 89
  2. USSomebody who organises the illegal production and sale of beer during a time of Prohibition.
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MLA

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Chicago

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