hooch 1 of 2

noun (1)

ˈhüch How to pronounce hooch (audio)
Definition of hoochnext
slang
as in liquor
a distilled beverage that can make a person drunk during Prohibition, everybody drank homemade hooch

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noun (2)

ˈhüch How to pronounce hooch (audio)
variants or hootch
slang
as in hut
a small, simply constructed, and often temporary dwelling the soldiers quickly threw up the hooches where they would be living for the next few weeks

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In the back of the same floor, a cozy bar offers high-end hooch, the madam’s teller’s cage and the setting for The Gator Club’s scariest ghost stories. — Usa Today Network, USA TODAY, 29 July 2024 The gender divide is even more pronounced than the generational one, with the women mostly indoors, united in exasperation with their men, and the men standing about outside drinking homebrew hooch and swapping wry strategies about how best to manage their outspoken women. — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 5 July 2024

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