HOOCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hooch mean? 

• HOOCH (noun)
  The noun HOOCH has 1 sense:

1. an illicitly distilled (and usually inferior) alcoholic liquor

  Familiarity information: HOOCH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOOCH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An illicitly distilled (and usually inferior) alcoholic liquor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

hooch; hootch

Hypernyms ("hooch" is a kind of...):

alcohol; alcoholic beverage; alcoholic drink; inebriant; intoxicant (a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hooch"):

pruno (a liquor concocted from a mixture of ingredients (such as prunes and raisins and milk and sugar) that can be fermented to produce alcohol; made by prison inmates)