Hootch

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of hooch (“type of drink”). alt-of, alternative, archaic, countable, uncountable

    ""I can't hold my hootch so well as I could a few summers ago--and many hard Falls."

  2. 2
    an illicitly distilled (and usually inferior) alcoholic liquor wordnet
  3. 3
    Alternative spelling of hooch (“military shelter”). alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable

    "Eddie Diamond, the ranking NCO, made a small motion with his hand, and some of the others murmured a word or two, then they watched Mark Fossie pick up her suitcase and lead her by the arm down to the hootches."

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hoochhooch

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""I can't hold my hootch so well as I could a few summers ago--and many hard Falls."

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