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  • Using tons of 100-pound sacks of Dixie Crystal sugar, they concoct a sinister liquor in massive blackpot-still operations and ship it in cheap gallon jugs to nip joints in the ghettoes of big Northern cities and smaller Southern towns.

    Moonshine Gumshoe 2010

  • Using tons of 100-pound sacks of Dixie Crystal sugar, they concoct a sinister liquor in massive blackpot-still operations and ship it in cheap gallon jugs to nip joints in the ghettoes of big Northern cities and smaller Southern towns.

    Moonshine Gumshoe 2010

  • We mean to do it right off at once, afore the pies and cakes get mouldy and the blackpot stale.

    The Trumpet-Major Thomas Hardy 1884

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  • (n.) In moonshiners' parlance, a submarine still in which the mash is allowed to ferment directly in the still rather than in barrels or boxes.

    August 26, 2009

  • Type of fatty blood sausage.

    June 24, 2012