MOONSHINE

Moonshine

Moonshine, white lightning, mountain dew, hooch, and Tennessee white whiskey are terms used to describe high-proof distilled spirits, generally produced illicitly. The word "moonshine" is believed to derive from the term "moonrakers" used for early English smugglers and the clandestine nature of the operations of illegal Appalachian distillers who produced and distributed whiskey.

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moonshine

Noun

  1. The light of the moon; moonlight.
  2. Illegally distilled liquor, so named because much of the manufacturing process often is conducted without artificial light at night when the moon is shining.
    They watered down the moonshine.
  3. nonsense
    He was talking moonshine.
  4. A branch of pure mathematics relating the monster group to an invariant of elliptic functions; see .
  5. A spiced dish of eggs and fried onions.
  6. A month.


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