white lightning
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of white lightning
An Americanism dating back to 1910–15
Example Sentences
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At Fun Spot, a small, family-owned park just off the touristy International Drive, carts of people sped up and down the White Lightning and Freedom Flyer roller coasters.
From Washington Post • Mar. 7, 2020
White Lightning saw him first appear as Robert "Gator" McKluskey, a role he would reprise three years later in the 1976 film Gator.
From BBC • Sep. 6, 2018
Hartley, 21, was a trained contractor who died last year while refinishing a bathtub with White Lightning Low Odor Stripper near Nashville.
From Washington Post • May 10, 2018
His first No. 1 song, "White Lightning," came in 1959, followed by "Tender Years" in 1961.
From Reuters • Apr. 26, 2013
But always it was Timmendiquas, the great White Lightning of the Wyandots, who directed.
From The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)
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