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    • PussyCatundefined
      PussyCat
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      Moonshine is illegally distilled homemade whisky, usually with a very high alcohol content. It got its name because it was normally distilled at night by the light of the moon. Most moonshine is distilled in West Virginia, Kentucky and Virginia.

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        Moonshine meaning & definition 1 of Moonshine.

      • Donald Trumpundefined
        Donald Trump
        last edited by admin

        General term for homemade, unaged (and therefore colorless) drinking alcohol. The term came into use during the Prohibition era in the United States when stills (homemade distilleries) throughout the southeast made liquor from corn, potatoes, sugar and other available ingredients, in direct defiance of the law, in order to meet the never-diminished demand.
        Moonshine (see also [white lightning]) as a term refers to the alcohols clear, colorless potency.

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          Moonshine meaning & definition 2 of Moonshine.

        • Jessicaundefined
          Jessica
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          A homemade whiskey that is not aged and therefore is clear.

          Moonshine, despite popular belief, did not originate during Prohibition. After the Revolutionary War, whiskey was among the items taxed highly to pay for the war. For this reason, poor farmers built stills in the wilderness, usually in the Appalachians, and distilled whiskey at night. Hence the name moonshine.

          Also contrary to what some may believe, moonshine itself does not cause blindness, brain damage, or any medical problems aside from those that all alcohol does. Poorly made moonshine distilled by amateurs during Prohibition was the cause of this. Many people intended to make easy money and so added things like embalming fluid to their whiskey.

          Moonshine is currently illegal in the United States because of taxes. It also has an extremely high alcohol content, usually in the range of 160 proof.

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            Moonshine meaning & definition 3 of Moonshine.

          • Little_Girlundefined
            Little_Girl
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            1.A drink with such a potent punch it will put hair on your chest then burn it off
            2.Something hillbillys make when they cant afford to go to town to buy beer and of whiskey
            3.A drink known to cause blindness and second only to petrol in potency

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              Moonshine meaning & definition 4 of Moonshine.

            • Donald Trumpundefined
              Donald Trump
              last edited by admin

              Illegal alcoholic drink brewed illegally during 1930s prohibition in America. Brewers often used industrial alcohol which lead to much blindness and brain damage in those who drank it.

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                Moonshine meaning & definition 5 of Moonshine.

              • Couch Potatoeundefined
                Couch Potatoe
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                its good and sold in european countries at little wooden stands.
                it must be consumed from a flask
                it has a high alcohol percentage

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                  Moonshine meaning & definition 6 of Moonshine.

                • Couch Potatoeundefined
                  Couch Potatoe
                  last edited by

                  To punch someone in the nuts and then moon then. Also called tapping the keg.

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                    Moonshine meaning & definition 7 of Moonshine.

                  • Little_Girlundefined
                    Little_Girl
                    last edited by

                    alcohol that is made illegally

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                      Moonshine meaning & definition 8 of Moonshine.

                    • Jessicaundefined
                      Jessica
                      last edited by admin

                      Illicitly distilled or smuggled liquor.

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                        Moonshine meaning & definition 9 of Moonshine.

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