Meaning of moonshiner's turn | Babel Free

Definitions

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.

US, colloquial

Examples

“Did you see the moonshiner’s turn he pulled in that chase scene?”

“One sure way to cause an accident is with your basic "moonshiner's" or "bootlegger's" turn. Whiz down the road at about sixty or seventy, throw the gearshift into neutral, cut the wheel to the left, and hit the emergency brake with one good wallop while holding the brake release out with your left hand.”

CEFR level