Usually means: Potent, illegal homemade distilled moonshine.
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  1. white lightning: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. white lightning: Merriam-Webster
  3. white lightning: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. white lightning: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. white lightning: Wiktionary
  6. white lightning: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. white lightning: Dictionary.com
  8. White Lightning (George Jones song), White Lightning (The Big Bopper song), White Lightning (band), White Lightning (cider), White Lightning (roller coaster), White Lightning, White lightning: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. white lightning: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. White lightning: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

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▸ noun:  (slang) Illegally distilled whiskey.

Similar:
ardent spirits, Chicago lightning, strikefire, thunderlight, lightening, lightning, forked lightning, matchlight, torchlight, black light, more...

Opposite:
black thunder, dark storm, shadow bolt

Types:
moonshine, corn liquor, white whiskey, white dog, more...

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Similar:
ardent spirits, Chicago lightning, strikefire, thunderlight, lightening, lightning, forked lightning, matchlight, torchlight, black light, more...

Opposite:
black thunder, dark storm, shadow bolt

Types:
moonshine, corn liquor, white whiskey, white dog, more...



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