How to Use hooch in a Sentence

hooch

noun
  • But some of those who weathered economic storms stuck around to learn, tweak, and tinker their way to good hooch.
    — David Thomas Tao, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026
  • The 100 Years of Summer bourbon winks at the past by packaging the hooch in the same half-pint bottle ol’ Annie used to hide.
    — Kristin L. Wolfe, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Vaz has spent years trying to change the perception of the Goan liquor feni—usually made by double-fermenting cashew fruit or coconut-palm sap—from burn-your-eyelashes-off hooch to something truly enjoyable.
    — Smitha Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Apr. 2022
  • There’s the time the pair got ass drunk off hooch in the deep South at the kind of Geechie establishment that plays ZZ Hill, Johnny Taylor, and Clarence Carter records.
    — Keith Murphy, VIBE.com, 12 Dec. 2025
  • But the end of colonial rule galvanized a new frontier spirit around booze, with Americans shunning the sherry, port, and brandy favored by the stiff Europeans, and instead leaning into their own hooch created by a mash of whatever grains were on hand.
    — Charlie Campbell, Time, 25 May 2026

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