Sentence examples for the hooch from inspiring English sources

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the hooch

noun

Alcoholic liquor, especially inferior or illicit whisky.

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So instead, the goal is to find the hooch parties where the bashing usually begins.

But the real villain of the story is alcohol: the booze, the drink, the sauce, the hooch.

He spoke to ex-bootleggers, street racers and legitimate drag-race drivers and got to thrash about in a 1934 Ford V8 – the hooch deliverer's choice of ride.

Every summer hordes of them gather to "shoot the 'Hooch"—float down the Chattahoochee river in rings.This is not always as relaxing as it should be.

Across town, among the hooch drinkers, a few of the worst cases had been transferred to private hospitals that had agreed to take them, at the government's expense.

The morning papers did not let Mr. Steeles forget the vast gulf between his predicament and that of the hooch drinkers fighting for life at Bowring.

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Not to be confused with the worm-in-the-bottle hooch, temazcal is actually the Mexican variation on an Indian sweat-lodge, and its ultimate purpose is "detoxification".

Idlewild's events revolve around Rooster, the hooch-running singer-manager of the Church speakeasy (Big Boi) and his childhood best friend, Percival, the repressed virtuoso pianist set to take over his widower father's undertaking firm (Andre 3000).

"Such a tragedy happened in 2004 when more than 100 deaths took place," he explained, referring to the "Vikhroli hooch tragedy", named by the local press after the suburb where the victims lived.

The illicit hooch factory in the funeral parlour is an unfunny cousin to the one in Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot, and the first-generation immigrant wiseguys carving up the town look more like something by Francis Ford Coppola.

Why the new Hooch app is the greatest deal in L.A.: $99 buys you 365 cocktails.

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