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Mountain Dew¹

Where it comes from

From mountain dew (“illegally distilled whiskey”).

noun Mountain Dews · Mtn Dew

  1. countable, uncountable A brand of citrus-flavored, carbonated, heavily caffeinated beverage. In 1985 a Mountain Dew commercial started popping up on TV ....

mountain dew²

Where it comes from

So called because it was often illicitly distilled in the mountains.

noun

  1. Ireland, Southern US, uncountable Illegally distilled whiskey. […] and a big-bellied bottle of old whiskey — for there is nothing like mountain-dew taken internally for resisting the effects of night mists.

    Similar: bootleg, hooch, moonshine, poteen, white lightning

  2. Trinidad and Tobago, uncountable Illegally distilled rum.

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@misc{mountain_dew_2026,
  title = {mountain dew},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mountain%20dew},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}