Synonyms of moonshine

moonshine

noun

1

as in alcohol

illegally produced liquor

during Prohibition, moonshine and "bathtub gin" were made secretly

Synonyms & Similar Words

• alcohol
• booze
• bootleg
• drink
• rum
• spirits
• juice
• mountain dew
• white lightning
• hooch
• rotgut
• grog
• tipple
• firewater
• strong drink
• red-eye
• bathtub gin
• potable
• ardent spirits
• John Barleycorn

2

as in liquor

a distilled beverage that can make a person drunk

serving all sorts of moonshine at the bar

Synonyms & Similar Words

• liquor
• alcohol
• booze
• drink
• rum
• bottle
• whiskey
• spirits
• wine
• beer
• whisky
• vodka
• hooch
• firewater
• juice
• grog
• tipple
• brandy
• ale
• intoxicant
• tequila
• stimulant
• sauce
• potable
• inebriant
• strong drink
• aqua vitae
• gin
• ardent spirits
• John Barleycorn
• lush
• sake
• cocktail
• chaser
• brew
• load
• pop
• snort
• belt
• mead
• slug
• digestif
• aperitif
• schnapps
• snifter
• mescal
• liqueur
• bracer
• nightcap
• shooter
• mixed drink
• microbrew
• brewage
• shot
• saki
• tot
• peg
• nip
• mum
• brewski
• whet
• malt liquor
• home brew
• nappy
• Dutch courage
• barley-broo
• barley-bree
• mao-tai

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• nonintoxicant

3

as in nuts

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 & Similar Words

• nuts
• garbage
• nonsense
• stupidity
• drool
• rubbish
• silliness
• jazz
• bunk
• blah
• beans
• muck
• trash
• boloney
• buncombe
• fudge
• balderdash
• crock
• fiddle
• foolishness
• hokum
• craziness
• punk
• insanity
• bull
• falderal
• blatherskite
• folderol
• baloney
• humbuggery
• bunkum
• flapdoodle
• madness
• applesauce
• malarky
• fiddlesticks
• hogwash
• malarkey
• horsefeathers
• bilge
• rot
• trumpery
• piffle
• blither
• tommyrot
• twaddle
• blarney
• tarradiddle
• guff
• poppycock
• claptrap
• hooey
• tosh
• blather
• hoodoo
• codswallop
• blah-blah
• hokeypokey
• absurdity
• drivel
• taradiddle
• fiddle-faddle
• slush
• folly
• flannel
• humbug
• bosh
• crapola
• nerts
• gas
• senselessness
• absurdness
• idiocy
• greek
• foolery
• tomfoolery
• inaneness
• kookiness
• lunacy
• inanity
• imbecility
• fatuity
• monkey business
• rigamarole
• witlessness
• asininity
• hot air
• hocus-pocus
• rigmarole
• monkeyshine(s)
• shenanigan(s)
• double-talk
• hoity-toity

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• rationality
• reasonableness
• sense
• common sense
• horse sense
• wisdom
• judgment
• sensibleness
• levelheadedness
• judgement
• reasonability
• discernment