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hooch - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun noun noun
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun slang an illicitly distilled (and usually inferior) alcoholic liquor.noun (Military Slang) A living quarters
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noun North America, informal Alcoholic liquor , especially inferior or illicit whisky .noun military slang, Viet Nam era A thatched hut, CHU , or any simple dwelling.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Short for hoochinoo , from Hoochinoo , a Tlingit village where illegal liquor was distilled, from Tlingit xutsnuuwú .]
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Alteration (perhaps influenced by hut) of Japanese uchi , inside, interior.]
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Abbreviation of Hoochinoo, name of a specific liquor, from the name of the tribe which produced it, from Tlingit Hutsnuwu ("grizzly bear fort").
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Japanese うち (uchi, "house")
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Examples
Watching Stephen King in overalls chugging a near vertical bottle of hooch is so lol-worthy you will pause and re-wind, I guarantee.
TEN of TERROR #3: Creepshow « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2009
But the word hooch was (and is) used by soldiers in Korea and Japan to refer to quonset huts and other structures.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 1 1984
The hooch is a big wooden box, about half the size of the last living room I had in San Diego, and though the Marines generally stay eight to a unit, officers and staff sergeants (and myself, by extension) enjoy the spacious privileges of rank.
S.D. Liddick: COP Haditha 2009
He does not need insulin shots, no tonics, he drinks country made hooch , that is poison but yet it does not kill him.
2008 February 14 « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2008
He does not need insulin shots, no tonics, he drinks country made hooch , that is poison but yet it does not kill him.
Dead Indian-One for the Road « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2008
On the steps and inside the hooch were the other guards and the troops who had entered the area the preceding day.
Chirichingo, Luis G. 1977
On the steps and inside the hooch were the other guards and the troops who had entered the area the preceding day.
Petersen, Michael T. 1969
On the steps and inside the hooch were the other guards and the troops who had entered the area the preceding day.
Nowicki, Hames E. 1969
On the steps and inside the hooch were the other guards and the troops who had entered the area the preceding day.
Shepard, Vernon C. 1969
"So that's how they miscall hooch down in this country," ruminated
The Plunderer Henry Oyen 1902
madmouth commented on the word hooch
"Wheredja snitch the hooch?"
-Rex Banner in The Simpsons
April 14, 2009
man commented on the word hooch
from dictionary.com:
–noun Military Slang.
1. a thatched hut of southeast Asia.
2. any living quarters, as a barracks.
3. (esp. during the Korean War)
3a. a prostitute's dwelling.
3b. any place, as a house, room, or shack, where a serviceman sets up housekeeping with a local woman.
Also, hootch, hoochie.
Origin:
1950–55 prob. < Japn uchi house (by back formation, construing -i as -y2); initial h perh. by assoc. with hut or < Ryukyuan dial. form of uchi with prothetic h-
October 6, 2010