Usually means: Illicitly distilled homemade alcoholic liquor.
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  1. moonshine: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. moonshine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. moonshine: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. moonshine: Collins English Dictionary
  5. moonshine: Vocabulary.com
  6. Moonshine, moonshine: Wordnik
  7. moonshine: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. moonshine: Wiktionary
  9. moonshine: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. moonshine: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. moonshine: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Moonshine, moonshine: Dictionary.com
  13. moonshine: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. moonshine: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Moonshine: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. moonshine: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. moonshine: Rhymezone
  19. moonshine: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. moonshine: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. MOONSHINE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. Moonshine: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. moonshine: Free Dictionary
  24. moonshine: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. moonshine: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. Moonshine: World Wide Words

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  1. moonshine: Medical dictionary

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  1. Moonshine: Bar-Nones Dictionary of Drinking

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  1. moonshine, moonshine, moonshine: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (literally) The light of the moon.
noun:  (informal) High-proof alcohol (especially whiskey) that is often, but not always, produced illegally.
noun:  (England, dialectal, archaic) smuggled spirits, often with a specific sense;(Kent, Sussex) white brandy; (Yorkshire) gin.
noun:  (colloquial, uncountable) Nonsense.
noun:  (mathematics, uncountable) A branch of pure mathematics relating the Monster group to an invariant of elliptic functions.
noun:  (US, cooking) A spiced dish of eggs and fried onions.
noun:  (obsolete) A month.
verb:  (intransitive) To make homemade (especially, illicit) alcohol, especially distilled spirits.
verb:  (transitive) To make (an ingredient) into such a drink.

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