revenuer re vuh nooh er n a government agent responsible for collecting revenue (especially one responsible for stopping bootlegging) Usage(s) Taylor collapsed on the revenuer's floor. One crisis came when Grandfather John Canada Jenkins, a revenuer known to his friends as "Can," came to Tellico Plains with his second bride. In his private time capsule, the arrival of the mail and the ice peddler orevil day the revenuer become the rituals of an obscure epoch.