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countable and uncountable, plural hooches
(Canada, US, informal) An alcoholic beverage, especially an inferior or illicit one and especially liquor such as whisky. quotations examples
he was so grief-stricken that he literally drowned his sorrow in “hootch-i-noo,” the native equivalent of whiskey. […] Had he not been so sad he would not have drunk the “hootch,” and if he had not drunk the hootch he would not have died: a perfectly reasonable and logical argument.
c. 1910, O.M. Salisbury, chapter 3, in Quoth the raven: A little journey into the primitive, Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, published 1962, page 17
Bring on the free hooch!
1997, Kevin Smith, Chasing Amy, spoken by Banky Edwards (Jason Lee)
plural hooches
(Vietnam War-era military slang) A thatched hut, CHU, or any simple dwelling. quotations
Burn the hooches.
2022 December 6, Avatar: The Way of Water, spoken by Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang)