| Main Entry: | moonshine |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illegally distilled alcohol |
Synonyms: |
bathtub gin, bootleg, firewater, home brew, hooch, mountain dew, rotgut, white lightning |
| Main Entry: | alcohol |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intoxicating, flammable liquid |
Synonyms: |
alky, booze, canned heat, cocktail, drink, ethanol, firewater, hard stuff, hootch, intoxicant, liquor, methanol, moonshine, palliative, red-eye, rotgut, sauce, smoke*, spirits, tipple, toddy |
| Main Entry: | contraband |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | black-market production |
Synonyms: |
bootlegging, counterfeiting, crime, dealing, goods*, moonshine, piracy, plunder, poaching, rum-running, smuggling, stuff, swag, theft, trafficking, violation, wetbacking |
Antonyms: |
legal goods |
| Main Entry: | liquor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | drink; alcoholic beverage |
Synonyms: |
alcohol, aqua vitae, booze, broth, decoction, drinkable, elixir, extract, firewater, fluid, hard stuff, inebriant, infusion, intoxicant, liquid, moonshine, poison*, potable, sauce, solvent, spirits, stock, the bottle, whiskey |
| Notes: | liqueur is essentially the same word as liquor (from Latin), though the words have different meanings - liqueur is a strong highly flavored, often sweetened, alcoholic drink while liquor is an alcoholic beverage made by distillation rather than fermentation (which would be beer, wine) |
| Main Entry: | rot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | garbage, nonsense |
Synonyms: |
balderdash, bilge, bunk, claptrap, drivel, foolishness, guff, hogwash, hooey, moonshine, poppycock, rubbish, silliness, stuff and nonsense, tommyrot |
Antonyms: |
truth |
| Main Entry: | smuggle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | transfer illegal goods |
Synonyms: |
bootleg, deal, export, hide, moonshine, pirate, push, run, run contraband, run rum, snake in |
| Main Entry: | traffic |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | buy and sell; do business |
Synonyms: |
bargain, barter, black-market, bootleg, connect with, contact, deal, deal in, dicker, exchange, fence, handle, have dealings, have transaction, horse trade, interact, interface, make a deal, market, moonshine, negotiate, network, peddle, push, reach out, relate, shove, swap, touch, touch base, trade, truck, work out |
| Main Entry: | bathtub gin |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | homemade gin |
Synonyms: |
bootleg, firewater, home brew, homemade spirit, hooch, moonshine, mountain dew, white lightning |
| Main Entry: | mountain dew |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | homemade liquor |
Synonyms: |
bathtub gin, bootleg liquor, corn liquor, home brew, hooch, illegal liquor, moonshine, white lightning |
| Main Entry: | white lightning |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bootleg liquor |
Synonyms: |
bathtub gin, bootleg, home brew, hooch, moonshine, mountain dew, rotgut, sheepdip, stump liquor, tiger milk, white mule |