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Illegal liquor, informally
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hooch
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Word definitions for hooch in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
hooch \hooch\ n. an illicitly distilled (and usually inferior) alcoholic liquor. [slang] [WordNet sense 1] Syn: hootch. (Military Slang) A living quarters; especially: a thatched hut in Southeast Asia, or any living quarters where a serviceman lives together ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I lay under my cot and prayed that our hooch would not take a direct hit with a rocket. ▪ I remember when I heard the rounds coming in, I dragged myself out of the hooch . ▪ If an old abandoned hooch was next to a roadway that ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also hootch , "cheap whiskey," 1897, shortened form of Hoochinoo (1877) "liquor made by Alaskan Indians," from the name of a native tribe in Alaska whose distilled liquor was a favorite with miners in 1898 Klondike gold rush; the tribe's name is said by ...
Usage examples of hooch.
Since when had a bunch of mobsters who killed, raped, and sold dope, women, and 113 Rita Clay Estrada hooch been considered fair?
He was on friendly terms with all the neighborhood hustlers and scufflers, the numbers writers and unlicensed hooch sellers, the professional females and dice-table bankers.
By battle, murder or sudden wealth, by pestilence, hooch or lead-- I swore on the Book I would follow and look till I found my tombless dead.
Toronto for you -- and Canada, because this country is still pretty much pioneer in its deepest feelings and thinks art is something the women amuse themselves with in the long winter evenings -- you know, knitting, tatting, and barbola -- while the men drink bootleg hooch in the barn.
Wilson took up position in the foxhole and Rose and Perdue settled down in the hooch to sleep.
Tartars selling shashlik competed volubly with two Chinese touting illegal hooch in tin bottles.
Hooch Palmer knew, so they about filled their trousers first time they saw them Reds with fire arrows.
Red, Hooch always said, and the way he and Bill Harrison had things going now, they had them Reds dying of likker at a good clip, and paying for the privilege along the way.
Hooch noticed that besides the normal complement of soldiers on guard and officers doing paperwork, there were several Reds sprawling or sitting in the headquarters building.
Ta-Kumsaw said it without cracking a smile, but Hooch had traded with the Reds enough to know their kind of joke.
Timmy shrugged and sipped at the strong liquid laced with prison hooch.
Their life was the camps, foxholes, sandbags, bunkers, hooches, tents, jungles, swamps, rice paddies, snakes, rats, and even tigers.
They what we call the hooches, which were plywood, metal, and screening housing.
He had seen them coming before out of the mangrove thickets, out of the half-burned hooches lining the creeks and canals and the Mekong itself.
Toronto for you -- and Canada, because this country is still pretty much pioneer in its deepest feelings and thinks art is something the women amuse themselves with in the long winter evenings -- you know, knitting, tatting, and barbola -- while the men drink bootleg hooch in the barn.