as in white lightnings
illegally produced liquor
one sip of the hillbilly's potent mountain dew left inexperienced drinkers gasping
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Noun
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On Earth, methyl formate and acetaldehyde are used as industrial chemicals, methanol and ethanol are alcohols, and acetic acid is in vinegar.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
7 Nov. 2025 -
Liquid chalk markers use various alcohols to create transferable liquid chalk that dries entirely on the board.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
27 Oct. 2025
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Her source material is a pair of cassette tapes recorded by Dueñez in the ’90s, two of a series of bootlegs that the sonidero and his wife sold at the flea market along the Puente del Papa, a bridge connecting Monterrey’s prosperous city center with its mountainside slums.—
Philip Sherburne,
Pitchfork,
7 Jan. 2026
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But for a few months in 1975, all four members worked in unison to create a masterpiece and perform concerts that became legendary, thanks to bootlegs like the one here.—
Kory Grow,
Rolling Stone,
11 Dec. 2025
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Phoenix's oldest dive bars still going strong Nothing beats a classic dive, complete with cheap drinks, pool tables and a jukebox.—
Arizona Republic,
AZCentral.com,
9 Nov. 2025
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Military personnel and on-duty, uniformed first responders, including law enforcement, fire, and EMS, can get free coffee and fountain drinks year-round, too.—
Mike Snider,
USA Today,
9 Nov. 2025
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“Mountain dews.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mountain%20dews. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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