1. An amendment to the United States Constitution ratified in 1919 that prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages; repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933
   "The Eighteenth Amendment ushered in the Prohibition era";
   - Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

Type of: amendment

Part of: Constitution, Constitution of the United States, U.S. Constitution, United States Constitution, US Constitution

Encyclopedia: Eighteenth Amendment