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hooches

hooches is the plural of hooch.

Meaning of hooch

Noun (1)

hooch (countable and uncountable, plural hooches)

  1. (Canada, US, informal) An alcoholic beverage, especially an inferior or illicit one and especially liquor such as whisky.
    • he was so grief-stricken that he literally drowned his sorrow in “hootch-i-noo,” the native equivalent of whiskey. […] Had he not been so sad he would not have drunk the “hootch,” and if he had not drunk the hootch he would not have died: a perfectly reasonable and logical argument.c. 1910, O.M. Salisbury, chapter 3, in Quoth the raven: A little journey into the primitive, Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, published 1962, page 17

Noun (2)

hooch (plural hooches)

  1. (Vietnam War-era military slang) A thatched hut, CHU, or any simple dwelling.
    • Burn the hooches.2022 December 6, Avatar: The Way of Water, spoken by Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang)

Questions about hooches

What is hooches the plural of?
Hooches is the plural of hooch.

Words near hooches in the dictionary

  1. Hooblers
  2. hooch
  3. hooched
  4. hooched up
  5. hooched-up
  6. hooches
  7. hoochie
  8. hoochie mama
  9. hoochie mamas
  10. hoochie-coochie
  11. hoochie-coochies

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