"dry agent" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: dry agents [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} dry agent (plural dry agents)
  1. (historical) A person who went undercover during prohibition in order to find evidence of the illicit sale of alcohol. Tags: historical
    Sense id: en-dry_agent-en-noun-N~NKEn3~ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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