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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