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noun

hooch n.

An illicitly distilled (and usually inferior) alcoholic liquor. (slang)

Synonyms: hootch.

(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.

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Etymology of 'Hooch'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hooch" Quotes from Famous Books

... colleges, in the high school and the home. Adolescents of both sexes too often are practically unhampered in their comings and goings, their words and actions. The surreptitious pocket flask, filled with "hooch," is often a feature of social parties, dances and affairs frequented by young people. Girls and boys drink together, and as alcohol weakens moral resistance in the one case, and stimulates desire in the other, deplorable consequences naturally result. In the United States the number ...

— Sex - Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English • Henry Stanton

... of hooch, 'Slim,' and I'll tell ya everything," he whimpered. He rose timidly from his chair. Louie and the other "basher" started toward him, but stopped at a gesture ...

— Spring Street - A Story of Los Angeles • James H. Richardson

... lilac plain of sea-ice ahead. We were once more on the western side of Ninnis Glacier and the familiar coast of Penguin Point, partly hidden by an iceberg, sprang into view. The depot hill to the north-west could be recognized, twenty miles away, across a wide bay. By hooch-time we had found a secure path to the sea-ice, one hundred ...

— The Home of the Blizzard • Douglas Mawson

Words linked to "Hooch" : alcoholic beverage, pruno, intoxicant, hootch, alcoholic drink