hootch

Example Sentences

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A stereo set was blaring in an enlisted men's hootch shortly after midnight as two majors from the 5th Mechanized Division made their rounds of the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

One all-black hootch in Danang sports more than 500 such photographs.

From Time Magazine Archive

The officers stopped at the hootch and told the five black G.I.s to turn down the music.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was the promise now of finding a hootch somewhere, or an abandoned pagoda, where they could strip down and wring out their fatigues and maybe start a hot fire.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

We went over to my hootch, picked up our gear, and then moved through the night down to the wire.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien