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: alcoholic liquor especially when inferior or illicitly made or obtained
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Examples of hooch in a Sentence
Noun (1)
during Prohibition, everybody drank homemade hooch
Noun (2)
the soldiers quickly threw up the hooches where they would be living for the next few weeks
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Usa Today Network, USA TODAY, 29 July 2024
The gender divide is even more pronounced than the generational one, with the women mostly indoors, united in exasperation with their men, and the men standing about outside drinking homebrew hooch and swapping wry strategies about how best to manage their outspoken women.
—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 5 July 2024
Get The Recipe 43 of 54 Apple-Pie Infused Bourbon
Turn a plain bottle of hooch into a top-shelf indulgence, infused with sweet autumn flavor.
—Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 28 Mar. 2024
Alcoholic beverages will include $6 light draft beers, the Wolverine bite drink of Corazon Blanco, blue curacao, lime juice, simple syrup, and lemonade, and the husky hooch drink of Wheatley Vodka, Creme de Violette, lime juice, simple syrup lemonade.
—Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 5 Jan. 2024
In the 1920s, Moonlight Beach was popular with sunbathers, race-horse aficionados and bootleggers, who used the beach as a hooch drop-off point.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023
Other scofflaws are refilling empty premium bottles with cheap hooch and passing them off as the real thing.
—Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2022
Saloons were supplanted by speakeasies, complete with secret passwords and off-the-menu hooch.
—National Geographic, 2 Nov. 2020
Historians say many a drunken citizen slept off the effects of too much hooch while locked up in the jail, located near Madison and Girod streets about four blocks from Lake Pontchartrain.
—Kim Chatelain | Contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 11 Oct. 2020
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Noun
In the back of the same floor, a cozy bar offers high-end hooch, the madam’s teller’s cage and the setting for The Gator Club’s scariest ghost stories.
—Usa Today Network, USA TODAY, 29 July 2024
The gender divide is even more pronounced than the generational one, with the women mostly indoors, united in exasperation with their men, and the men standing about outside drinking homebrew hooch and swapping wry strategies about how best to manage their outspoken women.
—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 5 July 2024
Get The Recipe 43 of 54 Apple-Pie Infused Bourbon
Turn a plain bottle of hooch into a top-shelf indulgence, infused with sweet autumn flavor.
—Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 28 Mar. 2024
Alcoholic beverages will include $6 light draft beers, the Wolverine bite drink of Corazon Blanco, blue curacao, lime juice, simple syrup, and lemonade, and the husky hooch drink of Wheatley Vodka, Creme de Violette, lime juice, simple syrup lemonade.
—Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 5 Jan. 2024
In the 1920s, Moonlight Beach was popular with sunbathers, race-horse aficionados and bootleggers, who used the beach as a hooch drop-off point.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023
Other scofflaws are refilling empty premium bottles with cheap hooch and passing them off as the real thing.
—Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2022
Saloons were supplanted by speakeasies, complete with secret passwords and off-the-menu hooch.
—National Geographic, 2 Nov. 2020
Historians say many a drunken citizen slept off the effects of too much hooch while locked up in the jail, located near Madison and Girod streets about four blocks from Lake Pontchartrain.
—Kim Chatelain | Contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 11 Oct. 2020
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“Hooch.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hooch. Accessed 29 Nov. 2024.
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