moonshine

1. 1.

   distill (alcohol) illegally; produce moonshine

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   chemistry

Other forms of moonshine

plural

moonshines·

past tense

moonshined·

present participle

moonshining·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about moonshine

What does moonshine mean?

moonshine means "the light of the Moon". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in moonshine?

moonshine has 2 syllables: moon-shine. The stress falls on "moon". In IPA it is /ˈmunˌʃaɪn/.

What is another word for moonshine?

Close synonyms include moonlight, Moon, bootleg, corn liquor. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is moonshine a common word?

moonshine is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with moonshine?

3 words rhyme with moonshine. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.