Definitions for Hooch

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Hooch hooch

Spelling: [hooch]

IPA: /hutʃ/

Hooch is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 17 anagrams from letters in Hooch (chhoo).

Definitions for Hooch

noun

1. alcoholic liquor.
2. liquor illicitly distilled and distributed.
3. a thatched hut of southeast Asia.
4. any living quarters, as a barracks.
5. a prostitute's dwelling. any place, as a house, room, or shack, where a serviceman sets up housekeeping with a local woman.
6. Pieter de [pee-ter duh;; Dutch pee-tuh r duh] /ˈpi tər də;; Dutch ˈpi tər də/ (Show IPA), 1629?–88? Dutch painter.

Origin of Hooch

First recorded in 1895-1900; shortening of hoochinoo

Examples for Hooch

He finds the bottle of hooch—and that's the end of the Siwash.

"Let me get a shot of hooch, 'Slim,' and I'll tell ya everything," he whimpered.

I tried to reach the hooch to destroy it, but they crowded me away.

Kitty told me the hooch had got him right—but she didn't tell it strong enough.

Watching her drown her sorrows in hooch and then get beat up by Crazy Eyes in the showers was ghastly…but great television.

Only at intervals and from a distance came the shouting of choruses and the loud "hooch!"

All you need is to git out in the mountains—an' lay off the hooch.'

He's dirty, an' ragged, an' bloated with hooch an' broke—an' yet, by God—he's a man!

And, by God, when I win, it won't be because I couldn't get the hooch!

The sound of dancing came from the hall, with cries of "hooch!"