moonshined

Verb

moonshine (third-person singular simple present moonshines, present participle moonshining, simple past and past participle moonshined)

1. (intransitive) To make homemade (especially, illicit) alcohol, especially distilled spirits.
   • His grandfather started to moonshine when things got really bad in 1933; when he got caught moonshining, he did a bit of time.
2. (transitive) To make (an ingredient) into such a drink.
   • 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.1985 June 6, “Opinion: Topics: Lean and Rich History: Ancient Eatings”, in New York Times, retrieved 15 Dec 2023, Section A, page A26

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