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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illegally distilled alcohol |
| Synonyms: | bathtub gin, bootleg, firewater, home brew, hooch, mountain dew, rotgut, white lightning |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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) |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | whiskey |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | booze |
| Synonyms: | alcohol, bourbon, corn, distill, distiller, distillery, drink, hooch, liquor, moonshine, moonshiner, mountain dew, poteen, rotgut, rye, scotch, spirits, spiritus frumenti, usquebaugh, white lightning |
| Notes: | bourbon (named for Bourbon County, Kentucky) is an American whiskey made from at least 51 percent corn, plus other grains (all bourbons are whiskey, but not all whiskeys are bourbon); whiskey is an alcoholic liquor distilled from grain, such as corn, rye, or barley, and containing approximately 40 to 50 percent ethyl alcohol by volume - and the varieties include bourbon whiskey, corn whiskey, and rye whiskey whiskey is the preferred spelling in Ireland and the United States; whisky is the spelling in Canada and Great Britain |
| Main Entry: | balderdash |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
| Synonyms: | bosh, bull, bunk, claptrap, crock, drivel, flummery, fudge, fustian, jargon, malarkey, moonshine, poppycock, rigmarole, rot, trash, tripe, twaddle |
| Main Entry: | bathtub gin |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | homemade gin |
| Synonyms: | bootleg, firewater, home brew, homemade spirit, hooch, moonshine, mountain dew, white lightning |
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