hootch
/huːtʃ/
noun
- Alcoholic liquor, especially homemade or illegally made whiskey.
- During Prohibition, some people made hootch in hidden stills.
- The old-timer shared a jar of his homemade hootch with the neighbors.
- They brewed their own hootch from corn and sugar.
- A hut or small, crude shelter (military slang, especially from the Vietnam War).
- The soldiers slept in a hootch made of bamboo and tarps.
- We built a hootch near the river for the fishing trip.
- The camp had a row of hootches for the troops.