[hooch] n [short for hoochinoo, a distilled liquor made by the Hoochinoo (Hutsnuwu) Indians, a Tlingit tribe] (1897) slang: alcoholic liquor esp. when inferior or illicitly made or obtained
[2]hooch or hootch n [modif. of Jp uchi house] (1960) slang: a usu. thatched hut; broadly: dwelling