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How to pronounce hooch in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms hootch
Type of alcohol, alcoholic beverage, alcoholic drink, inebriant, intoxicant
Has types pruno

Examples of hooch

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Linneman resurrected the lost recipe and began hawking the family hooch in 2005.
From the denverpost.com
I loved him drinking that hooch and the reaction after he would drink that stuff.
From the variety.com
Sgt. Tippett went to his hooch, saw the photos of his own wife and sons, and wept.
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The wife can't get lazy when the hooch is on the prowl, or she'll be out the door.
From the washingtonpost.com
Now we're ready for the taste of something fruity cut by a bracing wallop of hooch.
From the chron.com
I would bring cigarettes and we'd drink brandy and various hooch they had.
From the news-journalonline.com
So how does a small state known for horses and hooch become an industrial powerhouse?
From the businessweek.com
Drinkers came to prefer sweet flavors that could mask the nasty taste of illicit hooch.
From the stltoday.com
The silos are said to be a former hideout and hooch storage of Al Capone.
From the dailyherald.com
More examples
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  • Homemade liquor. Not found in the Columbia and Grand Ronde versions of the jargon, this is a northern word ascribed to the Tlingit village group the Xootsnoowu which was current throughout northern and upper coastal usages of the Jargon, and of course has become part of standard English ...
  • Fermented bread and fruit which is held in a trash-bag until it becomes alcoholic. The smell alone is generally enough to keep most inmates from trying to brew their own.
  • Dwelling constructed primarily for short-term occupancy, made from canvas, used to house soldiers in the fields of Vietnam.
  • A small shelter. It is the contraction of some Vietnamese words.
  • Or hootch n: A hut or simple dwelling, either military or civilian.
  • Secretly distilled crude alcohol liquore
  • Bootleg liquor (from Hoochinoo, a tribe of Alaskan Indians who made distilled liquor).