Hooch also

[David Lewis]

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n. Slang
    * Alcoholic liquor, especially inferior or bootleg liquor: bootleggers 
smashed on their own hooch(Christopher Hitchens).
    * Marijuana.


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[Short for hoochinoo, from Hoochinoo, a Tlingit village where illegal 
liquor was distilled, from Tlingit xutsnuuwú.]

Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth 
Edition
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Main Entry: 1hooch 
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Pronunciation: 'hüch
Function: noun
Etymology: short for hoochinoo, a distilled liquor made by the Hoochinoo 
(Hutsnuwu) Indians, a Tlingit tribe
Date: 1897
slang : alcoholic liquor especially when inferior or illicitly made or 
obtained
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