"mountain dew" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "So called because it was often illicitly distilled in the mountains.",
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      "expansion": "mountain dew (uncountable)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish English",
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Southern US English",
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        },
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          "_dis": "57 43",
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "82 18",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Distilled beverages",
          "orig": "en:Distilled beverages",
          "parents": [
            "Alcoholic beverages",
            "Beverages",
            "Recreational drugs",
            "Drinking",
            "Food and drink",
            "Liquids",
            "Drugs",
            "Human behaviour",
            "All topics",
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            "Pharmacology",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1837 November, “Leistering Salmon by Torch-Light”, in New Sporting Magazine, volume XIII, number 79, page 310",
          "text": "[…] and a big-bellied bottle of old whiskey — for there is nothing like mountain-dew taken internally for resisting the effects of night mists.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "1870s or 1870s, George Etell Sargent, The Story of a City Arab, Religious Tract Society, page 387.\nHow they were employed was manifest from the strong perfume of tobacco and mountain dew (illicit whisky) which, striking upon me as I entered, almost overpowered my senses, […]"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Illegally distilled whiskey."
      ],
      "id": "en-mountain_dew-en-noun-dmY9otEz",
      "links": [
        [
          "whiskey",
          "whiskey"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Southern US, Ireland) Illegally distilled whiskey."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "75 25",
          "sense": "illegally distilled whiskey",
          "word": "bootleg"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "75 25",
          "sense": "illegally distilled whiskey",
          "word": "hooch"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "75 25",
          "sense": "illegally distilled whiskey",
          "word": "moonshine"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "75 25",
          "sense": "illegally distilled whiskey",
          "tags": [
            "Ireland"
          ],
          "word": "poteen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "75 25",
          "sense": "illegally distilled whiskey",
          "word": "white lightning"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Ireland",
        "Southern-US",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Trinidad and Tobago English",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Illegally distilled rum."
      ],
      "id": "en-mountain_dew-en-noun-fbb8C0rH",
      "links": [
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          "rum",
          "rum"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Trinidad and Tobago) Illegally distilled rum."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Trinidad-and-Tobago",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mountain dew"
}

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    "English nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "en:Distilled beverages"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "So called because it was often illicitly distilled in the mountains.",
  "head_templates": [
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      "expansion": "mountain dew (uncountable)",
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Irish English",
        "Southern US English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1837 November, “Leistering Salmon by Torch-Light”, in New Sporting Magazine, volume XIII, number 79, page 310",
          "text": "[…] and a big-bellied bottle of old whiskey — for there is nothing like mountain-dew taken internally for resisting the effects of night mists.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "1870s or 1870s, George Etell Sargent, The Story of a City Arab, Religious Tract Society, page 387.\nHow they were employed was manifest from the strong perfume of tobacco and mountain dew (illicit whisky) which, striking upon me as I entered, almost overpowered my senses, […]"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Illegally distilled whiskey."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "whiskey",
          "whiskey"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Southern US, Ireland) Illegally distilled whiskey."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Ireland",
        "Southern-US",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
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        "Trinidad and Tobago English"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Illegally distilled rum."
      ],
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        [
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        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Trinidad and Tobago) Illegally distilled rum."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Trinidad-and-Tobago",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "illegally distilled whiskey",
      "word": "bootleg"
    },
    {
      "sense": "illegally distilled whiskey",
      "word": "hooch"
    },
    {
      "sense": "illegally distilled whiskey",
      "word": "moonshine"
    },
    {
      "sense": "illegally distilled whiskey",
      "tags": [
        "Ireland"
      ],
      "word": "poteen"
    },
    {
      "sense": "illegally distilled whiskey",
      "word": "white lightning"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mountain dew"
}