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Mountain dew

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A brand of citrus-flavored, carbonated, heavily caffeinated beverage. countable, uncountable

    "In 1985 a Mountain Dew commercial started popping up on TV ...."

  2. 2
    Illegally distilled whiskey. Ireland, Southern-US, uncountable

    "[…] and a big-bellied bottle of old whiskey — for there is nothing like mountain-dew taken internally for resisting the effects of night mists."

  3. 3
    Illegally distilled rum. Trinidad-and-Tobago, uncountable

Etymology

Etymology 1

From mountain dew (“illegally distilled whiskey”).

Etymology 2

So called because it was often illicitly distilled in the mountains.

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