What is "hootches"

Usage examples of "hootches".

Same yellow shit in his eyes that last day out pouring that M60 into those hootches kids chickens pigs wasting that whole fucking ville same shit, see it in his eyes before I saw the blade, he.

Same shit all over again, same mothers pissing up everything this time it's blacks instead of gooks, waste their hootches burn out their crops whore up their girls blow your gut I'll talk to you pecker-head, get your shit together I'll talk to you.

The hootches were constructed of bamboo and leaves, but a Toyota pickup truck was parked just off the dirt road which wound up to the pocket valley from the deeper valley below.

Gooks were standing in the windows and doors of the hootches around the village square, and we were in the middle.

The few dozen sailors assigned there-donkeys, left over from copra and coconut-harvesting operations, far outnumbered humans-lived in primitive hootches and lived only for the next supply ship to take them off the beautiful but lonely desert island.