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Mountain Dew

noun

Etymology

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

Definitions

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

    • In 1985 a Mountain Dew commercial started popping up on TV ....
    • It has become a signature of the Koffee Kup, as much as the flower boxes filled with geraniums and the classic Mountain Dew sign hanging off the front of the building
    • The thing is, Rob Harris did die, he died shooting a Mountain Dew ad

  2. Illegally distilled whiskey.

    • […] 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. Illegally distilled rum.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA