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Meaning of moonshine

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

moonshine

Pronunciation:/ˈmuːnʃaɪn/

noun

Definitions

  1. The light of the moon; moonlight.

  2. High-proof alcohol (especially whiskey) that is often, but not always, produced illegally.

    Example: They watered down the moonshine.

  3. Nonsense.

    Example: He was talking moonshine.

  4. A branch of pure mathematics relating the Monster group to an invariant of elliptic functions.