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.
An unparliamentary version of the same reference to the social influence is: "The Senate is one long procession of dinners and hootch."
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Always he brought a bottle, and the excellent "hootch," as he called it, did much to make our lives bearable.
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"Yes, that's what they say back East; but when you get up town you'll find every second place a saloon with all the hootch you want to drink, or have money to pay for."
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"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?"
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
