moonshine
- Noun. (literally) The light of the moon; moonlight.
- Noun. Illegally distilled liquor, so named because much of the manufacturing process often is conducted without artificial light at night when the moon is shining.
- Noun. (colloquial) nonsense.
- Noun. (mathematics) A branch of pure mathematics relating the monster group to an invariant of elliptic functions; see (w, monstrous moonshine) .
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