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Definition of Hooch
1. Noun. An illicitly distilled (and usually inferior) alcoholic liquor.
Generic synonyms: Alcohol, Alcoholic Beverage, Alcoholic Drink, Inebriant, Intoxicant
Specialized synonyms: Pruno
Definition of Hooch
1. Noun. (North America informal) Alcoholic liquor, especially inferior or illicit whisky. ¹
2. Noun. (context: military slang Viet Nam era) A thatched hut, CHU, or any simple dwelling. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hooch
1. cheap whiskey [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hooch
Literary usage of Hooch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings edited by John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins (1887)
"... Pieter de hooch in the light and cool tone of his pictures. In 1651 he went
to Vienna, Rome, and London, finding admirers everywhere. ..."
2. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the by Cornelis Hofstede de Groot (1907)
"Whether De hooch learned more from Vermeer than Vermeer learned from him, ...
Pieter de hooch combines this effect in most cases with a vista of a second ..."
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