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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.

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moonshiner n.

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moonshine

Noun

1. US & Canad illegally distilled or smuggled whisky

2. foolish or nonsensical talk or thought

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	moonshine - the light of the Moon; "moonlight is the smuggler's enemy"; "the Moon was bright enough to read by" moonlight, Moon light, visible light, visible radiation - (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation; "the light was filtered through a soft glass window" moon ray, moon-ray, moonbeam - a ray of moonlight
	2.	moonshine - whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash bootleg, corn liquor corn whiskey, corn whisky, corn - whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn
Verb	1.	moonshine - distill (alcohol) illegally; produce moonshine chemical science, chemistry - the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions distil, distill, extract - extract by the process of distillation; "distill the essence of this compound"