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white lightning
noun
Illegally distilled whiskey, so named because it is frequently of higher proof than legal whiskey and/or may contain impurities imparting an unrefined taste.
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As she talks with them, more than forty years after they got sober, "the ghosts of old dramas set up shop in the banality of the present, in living rooms and coffee shops: memories of hair stringy with vomit, nights in jail, crack in White Plains, white lightning in Monrovia, children driven over bridges during blackouts".
"And they're not sitting around sipping glasses of white lightning with giant glacier ice cubes.
He is sometimes called "L'éclair blanc," or white lightning, in the French press.
Next he selects a half-gallon jar of heart-stopping white lightning, as clear as vodka.
After a while, Charlie came back with two quart bottles full of white lightning or something.
Dinner ended with ouzo, or more commonly raki, the Greek version of white lightning.
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Roiling supercells, massive tornadoes, and white-hot lightning are fascinating to things watch (preferably at a distance or through a computer screen), but for some thrill-seekers, the science behind these complex atmospheric can be just as powerful as their aesthetic splendor.
Highton said NASA satellite images have recorded two storm epicentres contributing to the lightning: one over the Catatumbo River that generally starts around dusk, and another – even bigger – over the southwestern shore of Lake Maracaibo that starts later in the evening and produces the bright, blue-white lightning bolts that strike close to Highton's Catatumbo Camp.
Take the moment when Sookie tries to do the ole' white-hand-lightning trick, but it doesn't work, so she pushes Maryann in frustration.
It moved through quickly, bringing white sheets of lightning.
Her giant electric storm mural has white jags of lightning cutting through a black background like cracks in a wall, over a low-lying cityscape.
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