Illegally distilled liquor, so named because much of the manufacturing process is often conducted without artificial light at night when the moon is shining.They watered down the moonshine.
1920, Peter B. Kyne, The Understanding Heart, Chapter IV“Wish I'd been more polite to that girl,†the sheriff remarked regretfully. “ I ain't had a bite to eat since four o'clock this morning, and I'm hungry as a wolverine. … I know she'd have give me another drink of that old moonshine she has.â€
"We forget what we have learned in the last 60 years. At university I once asked one of my lecturers why he was not talking to us about continental drift and I was told, sneeringly, that if I could I prove there was a force that could move continents, then he might think about it. The idea was moonshine, I was informed."
ShakespeareWherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines Lag of a brother?
