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States Constitution ratified in 1919 that prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages; repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933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

Type of: amendment

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