hootch
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
He went directly to the bar and called for straight "hootch," to drive the cold from his bones, but, although it warmed his flesh, his soul remained numb and frozen.
From Project Gutenberg
It was known generally as "hootch," though some called it "Forty-rod whiskey," from its supposed power of killing at that distance.
From Project Gutenberg
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