plural of moonshine

Someone who makes or distributes moonshine

(literally) The light of the moon. / (informal) High-proof alcohol (especially whiskey) that is often, but not always, produced illegally. / (colloquial) Nonsense.

plural of moonshiner

(informal, US) Illicit production and distribution of liquor.

(colloquial, US) A rapid illegal U-turn performed by putting the car in neutral and applying the hand brake, thereby producing a controlled skid, with the car still moving backwards when forward power is again applied.

A fanciful notion; an unrealistic or ludicrous concept.

plural of moonshiner's turn

(mathematics) A mysterious connection between Niemeier lattices and Ramanujan's mock theta functions; a generalization of the Mathieu moonshine phenomenon connecting representations of the Mathieu group M24 with K3 surfaces.

(archaic) A pudding made with bread and butter, currants, cream, and eggs.