white mule

American  

noun

Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S.

1. moonshine.

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Etymology

Origin of white mule

An Americanism dating back to 1925–30

Example Sentences

He suggested the antithesis as a mascot - a white mule.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2012

Once he would have ridden on a white mule, but in 1953 he went in a black Cadillac.

From Time Magazine Archive

He took the pickup across the dip slowly, almost tenderly, as if the old truck were the blind white mule, too old to be treated roughly any more.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

The white mule seemed to like Catelyn; there was no kicking, thank the gods.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

The services, too, in this church were, under the papal government, exceedingly imposing, especially the procession on the night before Christmas, the mass of St. Thomas Aquinas, and that of "the white mule day."

From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.