hootch

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

For a few minutes Rat waited with him, quietly watching the hootch, then he patted the kid’s shoulder and left him alone.

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

In the dark outside my hootch, even though I bent toward him, almost nose to nose, all I could see were the glossy whites of Azar’s eyes.

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