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Single distilled ethyl-alcohol. Sometimes refered to as moonshine, white liquor, white lightning, mountain dew, hooch, homebrew, white whiskey, and corn liquor. White Lightning differs from true moonshine in that moonshine is usually double or triple distilled, where as white lightning is generally the product of a single distillation. Crystal clear, resembling water.

I just finished boiling off a batch of good ol' White Lightning.

1. Very high proof Moonshine. Borders on being 200 proof; it's pure grain alcohol and is illegal. White Lightning is the subject of a hit George Jones song.

2. White Lightning is also a term for LSD.

1. "Well I asked my old pappy why he called his brew,
White lightning 'stead of mountain dew,
I took a little sip and right away I knew,
As my eyes bugged out and my face turned blue!
Lightnin' started flashin' and thunder started crashin'
Shhhoooh . . . white lightning!" -George Jones

2. Suzy was tripping on White Lighting.

Colloquial term for grain alcohol, made from corn in a moonshine still. This clear, illegal, and very potent beverage was a favorite in the Appalachian Mountains during US’s prohibition years.

I think I wanna taste that powerful stuff He took one g-g-glug and drank it right down And I heard him a moaning as he hit the ground Mighty, mighty leasin, pappy's corn squeezin' Whshhhoooh . . . white lightnin'

Another name for Moonshine.

Better not be a drivin' if you're a drinkin' White Lightning.

Cheap, clear cider. Tastes like distilled urine. Probably is distilled urine. Carreis the stigma of being an under-18s-down-the-offy drink and of being taken (in huge amounts) by chavs.

And Johnny took a sip of White Lightning and spat it right back out again. "This is shit! And all those wannabe MCs drink that? Blimey, no wonder their rhymes were crap and their eyebrows fell off!" he said.

Extremely cheap and potent cider drank by scunners outside establishments such as Spar. Has a definite pronunciation.

Scunner: "We were 'avin a total mad mission of it, drinking White Lightning outside Spar"

The default nickname for a white guy who can really run run. Kind of strange considering lightning is already white.

John: Yo man, Jack ran a 4.4 40 yesterday at practice
Henry: That’s fuckin crazy. Isn’t Jack white tho?
John: Yeah he is, imma start calling him White Lightning now.