strong illegally distilled alcohol (Informal); moonlight, light from the moon; nonsense, empty talk
produce alcohol illegally
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Moonshine Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(n.)
The light of the moon.
The light of the moon.
(n.)
Hence, show without substance or reality.
Hence, show without substance or reality.
(n.)
A preparation of eggs for food.
A preparation of eggs for food.
(n.)
A month.
A month.
(a.)
Moonlight.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutMoonlight.
moonshine
\moon"shine`\, a. moonlight. [r.]
moonshine
\moon"shine`\ (?), n.
1. the light of the moon.
2. hence, show without substance or reality.
3. a month. [r.]
4. a preparation of eggs for food. [obs.]
moonshine
\moon"shine`\, a. 1. empty; trivial; idle.
2. designating, or pertaining to, illicit liquor; as, moonshine whisky. [dial. eng., & colloq. or slang, u. s.]
moonshine
\moon"shine`\ (?), n. liquor smuggled or illicitly distilled. [dial. eng., & colloq. or slang, u. s.]
homemade liquor, hooch, screech Art invited us over to taste his moonshine - homemade wine.
homemade liquor, screech
Art invited us over to taste his moonshine - homemade wine.
Art invited us over to taste his moonshine - homemade wine.
Noun
1. the light of the moon; "moonlight is the smuggler's enemy"; "the moon was bright enough to read by"
(synonym) moonlight, moon
(hypernym) light, visible light, visible radiation
(part-meronym) moonbeam, moon ray, moon-ray
2. whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash
(synonym) bootleg, corn liquor
(hypernym) corn whiskey, corn whisky, corn
Verb
1. distill (alcohol) illegally; produce moonshine
(hypernym) distill, extract, distil
(derivation) bootleg, corn liquor
(classification) chemistry, chemical science
Moonshine Definition from Science & Technology Dictionaries & Glossaries
Radio jamming device used by RAF to deceive the Freya radars by returning their own signal in an amplified form giving the impression of a larger force that in fact existed.
Moonshine Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Moonshine (meaning illicit distillation, also called white lightning, mountain dew, hooch, "Tennessee white whiskey", and many other names) is an illegally produced distilled beverage. The word is believed to derive from early English smugglers and illegal Appalachian distillers who clandestinely (i.e., by the light of the moon) produced and distributed whiskey.
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