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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hooch
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 is patrolled daily, stay away!
▪ It's just this bloody hooch.
▪ Keep growing chrysanthemums, darling and wearing daisies, the hooch is not good for you.
▪ There were 4 men in our hooch, a bit cramped, but we were not in there all at once.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
hooch

hooch \hooch\ n.

  1. an illicitly distilled (and usually inferior) alcoholic liquor. [slang] [WordNet sense 1]

    Syn: hootch.

  2. (Military Slang) A living quarters; especially: a thatched hut in Southeast Asia, or any living quarters where a serviceman lives together with a local woman.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hooch

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 OED to be from Tlingit Hutsnuwu, literally "grizzly bear fort."\n\nAs the supply of whisky was very limited, and the throats down which it was poured were innumerable, it was found necessary to create some sort of a supply to meet the demand. This concoction was known as "hooch"; and disgusting as it is, it is doubtful if it is much more poisonous than the whisky itself.

[M.H.E. Hayne, "The Pioneers of the Klondyke," London, 1897]

Wiktionary
hooch

Etymology 1 alt. (context North America informal English) alcohol liquor, especially inferior or illicit whisky. n. (context North America informal English) alcohol liquor, especially inferior or illicit whisky. Etymology 2

alt. (context military slang Viet Nam era English) A thatched hut, CHU, or any simple dwelling. n. (context military slang Viet Nam era English) A thatched hut, CHU, or any simple dwelling.

WordNet
hooch

n. an illicitly distilled (and usually inferior) alcoholic liquor [syn: hootch]

Wikipedia
Hooch

Hooch is a colloquial term for alcoholic beverages (also spelled hootch).

Hooch may also refer to:

As a name:

  • Hooch (surname), a list of fictional characters surnamed Hooch
  • De Hooch, a list of Dutch painters surnamed de Hooch
  • the title dog character in Turner & Hooch, a 1989 film starring Tom Hanks

Songs:

  • "Hooch", a song on the Melvins's 1993 album Houdini
  • "Hooch", a song by Everything, considered to be the band's signature song
  • "Hooch", a song from the Sum 41 album Does This Look Infected?
  • "Hooch", a song from the Kelis album Food
  • "The Hooch" By Travis Scott

" Birds In The Trap Sing McKnight" Other uses:

  • Hoosh, a stew made from water, biscuits and pemmican sometimes spelled Hooch
  • Chattahoochee River, United States watercourse
  • Hooper's Hooch, a 1990s brand of alcopop
  • Hooch, liquid produced during the making of sourdough starter
  • Hooch, Vietnam War slang for a thatched hut or improvised living space (e.g. inside sand-bagged bunker or improved "foxhole")
Hooch (surname)

Hooch, as a surname, may refer to the following fictional characters:

  • Rolanda Hooch, a teacher at Hogwarts in the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
  • Dr. Hooch (Scrubs), a minor character from Scrubs
  • DC Hooch, a character in Coronation Street

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.