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noun
An alcoholic beverage, especially an inferior or illicit one and especially liquor such as whisky.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, US, countable, informal, uncountable
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noun
A thatched hut, CHU, or any simple dwelling.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: Vietnam War-era military slang
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noun
Alternative form of hoosh (“type of stew”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
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noun
an illicitly distilled (and usually inferior) alcoholic liquor
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: hootch
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: alcohol, alcoholic drink, alcoholic beverage, intoxicant, inebriant
Narrower terms: pruno
History
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”).
First attested in the 1950s, probably borrowed from Japanese 家(うち) (uchi, “house”), especially the dialectal form with an initial h- used on the Ryukyu islands where many American soldiers were based.
Across languages
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