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hooch1 /huːtʃ /(also hootch) noun [mass noun] informalAlcoholic drink, especially inferior or illicit whisky.The Government was also forced to admit that illicit hooch was being brewed in Aarey colony, a reserve forest area in the city....- Once considered a low class hooch, tequila has undergone a huge image change over the past two decades to become the toast of Mexican high society, giving a heady euphoria to the country's drinks industry.
- That night, they held an impromptu party on the river's edge, where friends and friends of friends partied into the wee hours, drinking home-brewed orange hooch and saying farewell.
Origin Late 19th century: abbreviation of Hoochinoo, the name of an Alaskan Indian people who made liquor. Rhymes mooch, pooch, smooch hooch2 /huːtʃ /noun US informalA shelter or improvised dwelling.The hooches are 12 wooden huts where airmen live....- But ongoing construction will replace 270 hooches with no indoor plumbing with 44 four-unit apartment buildings and seven two-story, 72-occupant dormitories.
- Even worse, there was a direct hit on a nearby hooch.
Origin 1950s (originally military slang): perhaps from Japanese uchi 'dwelling'. |