hooch 1 also hootch (ho?och)n. Slang 1. Alcoholic liquor, especially inferior or bootleg liquor: “bootleggers smashed on their own hooch” (Christopher Hitchens).2. Marijuana.[Short for hoochinoo, from Hoochinoo, a Tlingit village where illegal liquor was distilled, from Tlingit xutsnuuwú.]hooch 2 also hootch (ho?och)n. Slang A dwelling, especially a thatched hut.[Alteration (perhaps influenced by hut) of Japanese uchi, inside, interior.]American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.hooch (hu?t?) or hootchn (Brewing) informal chiefly US and Canadian alcoholic drink, esp illicitly distilled spirits[C20: shortened from Tlingit Hootchinoo, name of a tribe that distilled a type of liquor]Hooch (hu?t?; Dutch ho?x) or Hooghn (Biography) Pieter de (?pi?t?r d?). 1629??1684, Dutch genre painter, noted esp for his light effectsCollins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014hooch1 or hootch (hut?) n. Slang. 1. alcoholic liquor. 2. liquor illicitly distilled and distributed. [1895?1900; shortening of earlier hoochinoo orig. the name of a Tlingit village alleged to be a source of illicit liquor (