1. [informal] An illicitly distilled (and usually inferior) alcoholic liquor
   "The speakeasy served homemade hooch during Prohibition";
   - hootch [informal]
    
2. [informal] Any alcoholic beverage
   "Let's pick up some hooch for the party"
    
3. [US, archaic] (military slang) a simple shelter or hut, especially one made by soldiers in the field
   "The troops built hooches to shelter from the rain"

Derived forms: hooches

Type of: alcohol, alcoholic beverage, alcoholic drink, booze [informal], inebriant, intoxicant, juice [N. Amer, informal]

Encyclopedia: Hooch, Pieter de