hootch
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Over dinner we taught our new traveling companions the limited Mongolian horse vocabulary we’d learned online: “choo” for go, “hootch” for stop.
The music—the noise, whatever it was — came from the hootch beyond the fence.
From Literature
"May I ask," he said, "what possible connection there can be between my not worrying about your notes and your keeping off the hootch, as you call it?"
From Project Gutenberg
But Kloon had turned a deaf ear to his suggestions,—Kloon, who never entertained ambitions beyond his hootch rake-off,—whose miserable imagination stopped at a wretched percentage, satisfied.
From Project Gutenberg
"I want you to go to the hole in the rocks under Star Peak and lay this packet under the hootch cache."
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