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  • noun Plural form of moonshine.

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Examples

  • “Across the board, the artisanal moonshines were getting 80s and 90s.”

    The Moonshine Revolution – Why White Whiskey is Making a Comeback | Impact Lab 2010

  • Video: Max Watman shares some of his favorite moonshines with Atlantic staff editor Rachael Brown and Atlantic food contributor Derek Brown

    Hipster Moonshine 2010

  • Video: Max Watman shares some of his favorite moonshines with Atlantic staff editor Rachael Brown and Atlantic food contributor Derek Brown

    Hipster Moonshine 2010

  • Video: Max Watman shares some of his favorite moonshines with Atlantic staff editor Rachael Brown and Atlantic food contributor Derek Brown

    Hipster Moonshine 2010

  • Oh, what fun it was and still is for me to check out those beautiful, detailed, illustrated books that tell the the stories of children who lived close to nature, who enjoyed celebrating birthdays and holidays by using their hands to create cakes and dolls, pumpkin moonshines at Halloween, and Sparrow Post Offices to deliver Valentines.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Gumbo Lily 2008

  • Oh, what fun it was and still is for me to check out those beautiful, detailed, illustrated books that tell the the stories of children who lived close to nature, who enjoyed celebrating birthdays and holidays by using their hands to create cakes and dolls, pumpkin moonshines at Halloween, and Sparrow Post Offices to deliver Valentines.

    Guess who's birthday is coming up? Gumbo Lily 2008

  • You acolytes natter on while your high priestest moonshines in ChiTown.

    It might be in bad taste... but the Washington Post is talking about it so.... Ann Althouse 2006

  • Wherefore 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?

    Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

  • Yet between two moonshines, some people, it seems, can tell which is the denser.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 Various

  • It is an astounding proposition that a great nation is powerful enough to stop white moonshines from making whiskey but is unable to prevent the moonshiners or any one else from murdering its citizens.

    How to Stop Lynching 1894

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