Hooch

Hooch

Hooch may refer to:

*Illicit or illegal liquor - Moonshine
*Hoosh, a stew made from water, biscuits, and pemmican
*Chattahoochee River, in the southeastern United States
*Beasley (dog actor), Hooch in the 1989 film "Turner and Hooch"
*Hooper's Hooch, a 1990s brand of alcopop
*"Hooch", a song by Everything
*"Hooch", a song by Sum 41
*An alcoholic substance produced during the production of sourdough starter.
*Hooch, Viet Nam era military slang for small dwelling. Derivation- "uchi"- Japanese word for dwelling
*Hooch, a single pont foundation, pre-fabricated tensile structure.;People
*Pieter de Hooch, a painter during the Dutch Golden Age
*Madam Hooch, a teacher at Hogwarts in the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
*Hooch ("Scrubs"), a minor character from "Scrubs"


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  • HOOCH (P. de) — HOOCH PIETER DE (1629 1684) Né à Rotterdam dans un milieu assez humble, mort à Amsterdam, Pieter De Hooch est, comme ses contemporains Vermeer et Gérard Ter Boch, le peintre de l’intimité bourgeoise. Selon Houbraken, il a été formé à Haarlem dans …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Hooch —   [hoːx], Hoogh, Pieter de, niederländischer Maler, getauft Rotterdam 20. 12. 1629, ✝ Amsterdam nach 1683; Schüler von N. Berchem in Haarlem. Hooch malte zunächst Soldaten und Wirtshausszenen. 1654 ließ er sich in der Nähe von Delft nieder, wo er …   Universal-Lexikon

  • hooch — n. 1. an illicitly distilled (and usually inferior) alcoholic liquor. [slang] [WordNet sense 1] Syn: hootch. [WordNet 1.5] 2. (Military Slang) A living quarters; especially: a thatched hut in Southeast Asia, or any living quarters where a… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • hooch — also hootch, cheap whiskey, 1897, shortened form of Hoochinoo (1877) liquor made by Alaskan Indians, from the name of a native tribe in Alaska whose distilled liquor was a favorite with miners in 1898 Klondike gold rush; the tribe s name is said… …   Etymology dictionary

  • Hooch — (Hoogh), Pieter de, holländ. Maler, geb. um 1630 in Utrecht, gestorben bald nach 1677 in Amsterdam, bildete sich unter dem Einfluß von J. Duck, später von Rembrandt, war anfangs in Delft tätig, wo er 1655 in die Malergilde aufgenommen wurde, und… …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Hooch — Hooch, Pieter de, holländ. Genremaler, geb. 1630 in Utrecht, gest. 1677 in Amsterdam; Innenleben, Kartenspieler u. dgl …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • Hooch — Hooch, Pieter de …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • hooch — hootch [hu:tʃ] n [U] especially AmE informal [Date: 1800 1900; Origin: hoochinoo alcoholic drink made by the Hoochinoo people of Alaska (19 20 centuries)] strong alcohol, especially alcohol that has been made illegally …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • hooch — [ hutʃ ] noun uncount INFORMAL strong alcoholic drink, especially drink that is made illegally …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • hooch — (also hootch) ► NOUN informal ▪ alcoholic liquor, especially inferior or illicit whisky. ORIGIN abbreviation of Hoochinoo, an Alaskan Indian people who made liquor …   English terms dictionary

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