to drink moonshine
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9.1
- phrasal verb
- /drɪŋk ˈmuːnʃaɪn/
- NSFW
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beber aguardiente
- I started drinking moonshine all the time.
- men drank moonshine
Examples
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In the countryside, it's common for friends to drink moonshine together during summer nights.
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What've you been drinking, moonshine?
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Yeah, people who drink moonshine got into math.
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So, you know, if you-- if you ask the right people, or the wrong people, depending on how you look at it, you might get a story of, you know, they were all, you know, drinking moonshine.
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The men drank moonshine and got violent to work the silences out of their system.
Fiction book (1990) -
After a long day of farm chores, the chefs get a little tipsy when they drink moonshine.
Blog text (20) -
One day we'll sit around campfires, drinking moonshine and telling our children nightmare tales of visible pixels and display resolutions under 200 ppi.
Blog text (34) -
After a long day of farm chores, the chefs like to drink moonshine to unwind.
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He warned me that drinking moonshine could lead to serious health risks because it is often unregulated.
Synonyms
5
8.4
To drink a lot of alcohol
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Given that the noun 'moonshine' denotes homemade, illegally distilled liquor, combining it with the verb 'drink' yields the straightforward meaning 'to consume moonshine' with no idiomatic shift. If a B1 learner knows both constituent words, the overall meaning is directly compositional and easily inferable.
Etymology
The phrase drink moonshine comes from a time when people secretly made strong moonshine at night by the light of the moon to hide from the police. That's why drink moonshine means 'to drink homemade or illegal alcohol'.