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▪ I. hooch colloq. (orig. and chiefly N. Amer.).|huːtʃ|
Also hootch.
[Abbrev. of Hoochinoo.]
a. = Hoochinoo 2.
b. In more general use, alcoholic liquor, spirits, esp. of low quality or illegal provenance.
1897M. H. E. Hayne Pioneers of Klondyke 91 The manufacture of ‘hooch’, which is undertaken by the saloon-keepers themselves, is weirdly horrible. 1903N.Y. Even. Post 25 Sept. 3 In this bottle was some of the native spirits called ‘hooch’, distilled from sugar and graham flour. 1904E. Robins Magnetic North ix. 161 Apart from the question of drinking raised again by the ‘hootch’,..they were ready to eat the more. 1907R. W. Service Songs of Sourdough (1908) 18 A broken wreck with a craze for ‘hooch’, and never a cent to my name. 1922G. C. F. Pringle Tillicums of Trail 41 I've cut out the hootch. It was getting me at White Horse. 1923C. J. Dutton Shadow on Glass 200, I thought of our modern ‘hooch ships’ that were doing the same thing. 1927Punch 20 Apr. 428/3 He knows what the poor want in the great black city of Chicago. They want cash. He knows what the thirsty want. They want hooch. 1927Amer. Speech III. 167/2 Hootch, bad whiskey. 1953M. Scott Breakfast at Six xii. 99 He's sure to have lots of hootch outside, and he'll get more expansive as the evening goes on. 1960Times 5 Feb. 9/5 He apparently received consignments of empty whisky bottles from Madrid, which were filled with the ‘hooch’. 1964Globe & Mail (Toronto) 15 Dec. 31/8 The least the authorities could do when they make a raid would be to pack the confiscated hootch and ship to some underprivileged country. 1969New Yorker 5 Apr. 97/1 The people of the city were prepared to swallow any old hootch under the rule of some wild thirst. 1970Times 15 Oct. 30/3 The distilled spirits industry..wages an expensive propaganda campaign against..hooch.
▪ II. hooch, hootch
see hoochie. |