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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

On a post at the rear of the hootch was the decayed head of a large black leopard; strips of yellow- brown skin dangled from the overhead rafters.

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

Stiffly, like a stranger, Sanders moved across the hootch and lay down with a magazine and pretended to read.

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