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How to pronounce hootch in English?

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

Examples of hootch

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His themes are mostly the Nashville perennials of hootch, heartbreak and hallelujah.
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Those wacky actors on ABC's Lost seem to love Hawaii, hootch and highways.
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The officers stopped at the hootch and told the five black G.I.s to turn down the music.
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There was no helping Major Robert Degen of Buffalo who lay dead in front of the hootch.
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Restaurants covered tables with long, draping cloths, the better for patrons to hide their hootch.
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The Stable will also be offering house-distilled hootch, inlcuding absinthe and moonshine, under the Hytest label.
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The Marine hootch was a one-story cement structure with a corrugated-iron roof, protected only by concertina wire.
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I didn't buy enough hootch for this thing.
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Yet Mavis and Matt are mirror images of arrested development, and they play-act a foggy friendship in the garage where he keeps his action figures and home-brewed hootch.
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More examples
  • Hooch: an illicitly distilled (and usually inferior) alcoholic liquor
  • Military slang. Used generically, a dwelling. On a U.S. base, a hootch was usually a rectangular building made of 2x4s and plywood with a corrugated tin roof. Also used in reference to Vietnamese civilian houses.
  • A hut or simple dwelling, either military or civilian
  • Derived as a corrupt modification of the Japanese word for 'house' ("uchi"), with possible influence from 'hutch' (as a small animal enclosure); see HOOCH.
  • House, living quarters or a native hut
  • A hut or building; fighter pilots both live in and attack them.
  • (noun) An alcoholic concoction made, drank and sold by crew members.