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"text": "His grandfather started to moonshine when things got really bad in 1933; when he got caught moonshining, he did a bit of time.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2007, Jason Sumich, “It's All Legal Until You Get Caught: Moonshining in the Southern Appalachians”, in Ethnographic and Linguistic Field Schools, volume 1: Summer 2007: Alleghany County, Appalachian State University, retrieved 2023-12-15",
"text": "Tommy is seventy-seven years old. He started moonshining at the age of seven. He was working for an outfit by the age of eight. He worked for the outfit fulltime until he was sixteen. He moonshined off and on until his mid-twenties. He works at a sawmill now as well.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To make homemade (especially, illicit) alcohol, especially distilled spirits."
],
"links": [
[
"homemade",
"homemade#Adjective"
],
[
"illicit",
"illicit#Adjective"
],
[
"distilled",
"distilled#Adjective"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To make homemade (especially, illicit) alcohol, especially distilled spirits."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1985 June 6, “Opinion: Topics: Lean and Rich History: Ancient Eatings”, in New York Times, retrieved 2023-12-15, Section A, page A26",
"text": "A more practical critic notes that paleolithic man had a very sweet tooth, which he sated with honey. Worse, he moonshined the honey into metheglin, an alcoholic brew. Booze and junk food, in other words, are hardly modern inventions.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To make (an ingredient) into such a drink."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To make (an ingredient) into such a drink."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈmuːnʃaɪn/"
},
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"word": "moonshine"
}
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