mountain dew

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

Noun

 * 1)  Illegally distilled whiskey.
 * 2) * 1870s or 1870s, George Etell Sargent, The Story of a City Arab, Religious Tract Society, page 387.
 * How they were employed was manifest from the strong perfume of tobacco and mountain dew (illicit whisky) which, striking upon me as I entered, almost overpowered my senses,
 * 1)  Illegally distilled rum.
 * 1)  Illegally distilled rum.