Meaning of mountain dew | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A brand of citrus-flavored, carbonated, heavily caffeinated beverage.
   countable, uncountable
2. Illegally distilled whiskey.
   Ireland, Southern-US, uncountable
3. Illegally distilled rum.
   Trinidad-and-Tobago, uncountable

Examples

“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”

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

“1870s or 1870s, George Etell Sargent, The Story of a City Arab, Religious Tract Society, page 387. How they were employed was manifest from the strong perfume of tobacco and mountain dew (illicit whisky) which, striking upon me as I entered, almost overpowered my senses, […]”

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