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Moonshining

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moon·shine  (mnshn)
n.
1. Moonlight.
2. Informal Foolish talk or thought; nonsense.
3. Illegally distilled whiskey. Also called regionally white lightning.
intr.v. moon·shined, moon·shin·ing, moon·shines
To distill and sell liquor illegally.

moonshiner n.


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A major industry effort to fight moonshining is formally initiated with the creation of the Council Against Illegal Liquor .
Hired to disband illegal moonshining operations, some revenuers set off dynamite beneath stills with the intention of blowing them up.
The defendant and justice would both have been better served if the lawyers had done their jobs without moonshining and histrionics, and if just one of those five witnesses had given a credible account of what happened.
 
 
 
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