hooch

Meaning

An alcoholic beverage, especially an inferior or illicit one and especially liquor such as whisky.

Synonyms

hootch

ashes

greta

bale

bar

bash

charge

blonde

boo

boom

💥

booze

broccoli

🥦

bud

burrito

🌯

block

dew

ding

ditch

fir

flower

🌸

funk

gage

gangster

gash

gauge

Ghana

🇬🇭

goon

grass

grata

greeter

baby

👶

has

hay

hemp

herb

🌿

homegrown

airplane

✈️

kali

kilter

kind

limbo

loaf

lobo

loco

locoweed

Lucas

machinery

macon

Mary

Columbian

Translations

gnôle

gnole

alcolici

Spirituosen

schwacher Schnaps aus Sake-Treber

μεθυστικά ποτά

hooch

erva

🌿

licor ilícito

المشروبات الروحية

içki

aiguardent

Pronounced as (IPA)

/huːt͡ʃ/

Etymology

Abbreviation of hoochinoo, name of a specific liquor, from Tlingit Xutsnoowú Ḵwáan, the group that produced it, from Hutsnuwu (“grizzly bear fort”), the name of the village on Admiralty Island in which they lived. From Tlingit xóots (“grizzly bear”).