Hootch (Noun)
Meaning
An illicitly distilled (and usually inferior) alcoholic liquor.
Classification
Nouns denoting foods and drinks.
Examples
- Bootleggers made and sold hootch to speakeasies during Prohibition.
- The backwoods stills secretly produced a potent and infamous hootch.
- He acquired a taste for hootch while serving overseas in the war-torn region.
- Her grandfather used to make his own hootch in the old barn.
- The police confiscate hootch from the makeshift distillery they raided.