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

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                  alcohol that is made illegally

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                    Illicitly distilled or smuggled liquor.

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