Synonyms for moonshine
ˈmunˌʃaɪnmoon·shine

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1. moonshinenoun

   Synonyms:
   corn liquor, white lightning, moon, mountain dew, moonlight, hooch, bootleg

2. moonshinenoun

   The light of the moon; moonlight.

   Synonyms:
   white lightning, moon, hooch, moonlight, corn liquor, bootleg, mountain dew

3. moonshinenoun

   Illegally distilled liquor, so named because much of the manufacturing process often is conducted without artificial light at night when the moon is shining.

   They watered down the moonshine.

   Synonyms:
   bootleg, moonlight, white lightning, mountain dew, moon, corn liquor, hooch

4. moonshinenoun

   nonsense

   He was talking moonshine.

   Synonyms:
   hooch, white lightning, moonlight, moon, bootleg, corn liquor, mountain dew

5. moonshinenoun

   A branch of pure mathematics relating the monster group to an invariant of elliptic functions; see .

   Synonyms:
   white lightning, corn liquor, moon, moonlight, hooch, bootleg, mountain dew

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. moonlight, moonshine, Moonnoun

   the light of the Moon

   "moonlight is the smuggler's enemy"; "the Moon was bright enough to read by"

   Synonyms:
   lunar month, synodic month, corn liquor, lunation, moonlight, bootleg

2. moonshine, bootleg, corn liquorverb

   whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash

   Synonyms:
   corn liquor, moonlight, bootleg

3. moonshineverb

   distill (alcohol) illegally; produce moonshine

Matched Categories

1. • Chemistry
   • Distill
   • Light

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. moonshinenoun

   Synonyms:
   moonlight

2. moonshinenoun

   Synonyms:
   nonsense, trash, stuff, twaddle, fudge, flummery, balderdash

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1. moonshinenoun

   Synonyms:
   balderdash, flummery, fustian, nonsense

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "moonshine":

   moonlight

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. moonshine

   Synonyms:
   Tricky liquor

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How to use moonshine in a sentence?

1. Pat Dillingham:

   We are most proud to run into a country bar in the rural South and see our product is the only moonshine on the shelf. We’re honored when see that.

2. H.L. Mencken:

   We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.

3. Sir Walter Scott:

   We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider everything as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.

4. Pat Dillingham:

   It was our deep love for Southern culture that was the inspiration for American Born Moonshine.

5. Jaime Joyce:

   Moonshine has huge crossover appeal, its renegade reputation makes it alluring to consumers who want a little taste of tradition. It makes them feel a little outlaw, too, without breaking any laws.