hooch

1 of 2

noun (1)

slang
: alcoholic liquor especially when inferior or illicitly made or obtained

hooch

2 of 2

noun (2)

variants or hootch
slang
: a usually thatched hut
broadly : dwelling

Examples of hooch in a Sentence

Noun (1) during Prohibition, everybody drank homemade hooch Noun (2) the soldiers quickly threw up the hooches where they would be living for the next few weeks
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Noun
Sipping the hooch were club promoters Unik and Kiki, plus real estate developer Bruce Eichner and his wife, Leslie. Richard Johnson, New York Daily News, 16 Mar. 2025 Sipping the hooch were club promoters Unik and Kiki, plus real estate developer Bruce Eichner and his wife, Leslie. Richard Johnson, New York Daily News, 16 Mar. 2025 Sipping the hooch were club promoters Unik and Kiki, plus real estate developer Bruce Eichner and his wife, Leslie. Richard Johnson, New York Daily News, 16 Mar. 2025 Sipping the hooch were club promoters Unik and Kiki, plus real estate developer Bruce Eichner and his wife, Leslie. Richard Johnson, New York Daily News, 16 Mar. 2025 It was favored by Charlie Chaplin and his cohort of Hollywood elite, played host to hooch parties during Prohibition, and became a Christian camp for a while. Tim Chester, AFAR Media, 13 Dec. 2024 It was favored by Charlie Chaplin and his cohort of Hollywood elite, played host to hooch parties during Prohibition, and became a Christian camp for a while. Tim Chester, AFAR Media, 13 Dec. 2024 It was favored by Charlie Chaplin and his cohort of Hollywood elite, played host to hooch parties during Prohibition, and became a Christian camp for a while. Tim Chester, AFAR Media, 13 Dec. 2024 It was favored by Charlie Chaplin and his cohort of Hollywood elite, played host to hooch parties during Prohibition, and became a Christian camp for a while. Tim Chester, AFAR Media, 13 Dec. 2024

Word History

Etymology

Noun (1)

short for hoochinoo, a distilled liquor made by the Hoochinoo (Hutsnuwu) Indians, a Tlingit tribe

Noun (2)

modification of Japanese uchi house

First Known Use

Noun (1)

1897, in the meaning defined above

Noun (2)

1960, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of hooch was in 1897

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“Hooch.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hooch. Accessed 19 Apr. 2025.

Biographical Definition

Hooch

biographical name

variants or Hoogh
Pieter de 1629–after 1684 Dutch painter
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