noun
- alcoholic liquor, especially illegally distilled whiskey
Usage: slang
Examples
- The old bootlegger was caught selling hootch during Prohibition.
- They found a bottle of homemade hootch hidden in the barn.
- The sailors traded supplies for local hootch at the port.
- He took a swig of the strong hootch and immediately regretted it.
- The police raided the illegal hootch operation in the mountains.