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Synonyms & Antonyms of moonshine
1
illegally produced liquor
- during Prohibition, moonshine and "bathtub gin" were made secretly
Synonyms for moonshine
Words Related to moonshine
- alcohol,
- ardent spirits,
- booze,
- drink,
- firewater,
- grog,
- hooch
- [slang],
- John Barleycorn,
- juice
- [slang],
- potable,
- rum,
- spirits,
- strong drink,
- tipple
2
a distilled beverage that can make a person drunk
- serving all sorts of moonshine at the bar
Synonyms for moonshine
- alcohol,
- aqua vitae,
- ardent spirits,
- booze,
- bottle,
- drink,
- firewater,
- grog,
- hooch
- [slang],
- inebriant,
- intoxicant,
- John Barleycorn,
- juice
- [slang],
- liquor,
- lush
- [slang],
- potable,
- rum,
- sauce
- [slang],
- spirits,
- stimulant,
- strong drink,
- tipple
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Antonyms for moonshine
- nonintoxicant
3
language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense
- a book about the so-called good old days that's sentimental moonshine
Synonyms for moonshine
- applesauce
- [slang],
- balderdash,
- baloney
- (also boloney),
- beans,
- bilge,
- blah
- (also blah-blah),
- blarney,
- blather,
- blatherskite,
- blither,
- bosh,
- bull
- [slang],
- bunk,
- bunkum
- (or buncombe),
- claptrap,
- codswallop
- [British],
- crapola
- [slang],
- crock,
- drivel,
- drool,
- fiddle,
- fiddle-faddle,
- fiddlesticks,
- flannel
- [British],
- flapdoodle,
- folderol
- (also falderal),
- folly,
- foolishness,
- fudge,
- garbage,
- guff,
- hogwash,
- hokeypokey,
- hokum,
- hoodoo,
- hooey,
- horsefeathers
- [slang],
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- jazz,
- malarkey
- (also malarky),
- muck,
- nerts
- [slang],
- nonsense,
- nuts,
- piffle,
- poppycock,
- punk,
- rot,
- rubbish,
- senselessness,
- silliness,
- slush,
- stupidity,
- taradiddle
- (or tarradiddle),
- tommyrot,
- tosh,
- trash,
- trumpery,
- twaddle
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