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white lightning

noun

, Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S.

An Americanism dating back to 1910–15

The Maid bent her head in gracious acknowledgment, swept through and was off to the river like a flash of white lightning.

The outer aspects of these members were decorated with white zigzag streaks, to indicate the white lightning.

Looking up through the cracks in the little steeple, they could see flash after flash of continuous white lightning.

The shop-woman looked up hastily, caught sight of two blazing eyes, and a face like white lightning, and quailed.

I will shiver their ship into little pieces with a bolt of white lightning as soon as they get out to sea.'

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