hootch
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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A stereo set was blaring in an enlisted men's hootch shortly after midnight as two majors from the 5th Mechanized Division made their rounds of the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The officers stopped at the hootch and told the five black G.I.s to turn down the music.
From Time Magazine Archive
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One all-black hootch in Danang sports more than 500 such photographs.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Stiffly, like a stranger, Sanders moved across the hootch and lay down with a magazine and pretended to read.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
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She cradled her weapon and moved swiftly to the Special Forces hootch and followed the others inside.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
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