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moonshine

/moon-shahyn/US // ˈmunˌʃaɪn //UK // (ˈmuːnˌʃaɪn) //

月光,月亮,月亮光,月光下

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Informal. smuggled or illicitly distilled liquor, especially corn liquor as illicitly distilled chiefly in rural areas of the southern U.S.
    • : empty or foolish talk, ideas, etc.; nonsense.
    • : the light of the moon; moonlight.

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Examples

  • He wrote a few more paperback originals, two of them westerns, then sold The Moonshine War to Doubleday in hardcover.

  • Gambling, girls; you could buy a pint of moonshine for a dime, store-bought whiskey for a quarter.

  • Daryl, insulted, smashes it to bits and finds her moonshine instead.

  • To prep for his role as a gun-slinging bootlegger in the film, LaBeouf packed on 40 pounds and guzzled moonshine.

  • In April, Grasse unveiled Spodee, a wine fortified with high proof moonshine that tastes strongly, and surprisingly, of chocolate.

  • This difficulty of making a tight and safe boiler, that puzzled Watt, was moonshine to Trevithick.

  • So home by moonshine, and by the way was overtaken by the Comptroller's coach, and so home to his house with him.

  • So leaving them in the same discontent I went away home, it being a brave moonshine, and to bed.

  • So my wife walking and singing upon the leads till very late, it being pleasant and moonshine, and so to bed.

  • The sky looks ever so deep when you lay down on your back in the moonshine; I never knowed it before.