hooch1
/huːtʃ
/(also hootch)
noun [mass noun] informal
Alcoholic 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
hooch2
/huːtʃ/noun US informal
A 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'.
- point of osculinflection
- point of sailing
- point of sale
- point of view
- Pointolite
- point pair
- point paper
- point particle
- point person
- point policeman
- point rationing
- point resistance
- point saillant
- point-scoring
- point screw
- point set
- points food
- point shaving
- point shoe
- point size
- points lever
- love dose
- love draft
- love draught
- love-drink