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Hooch or hootch may refer to:

Places

People

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

  • Hooch, the titular dog character in the film Turner & Hooch (1989), starring Tom Hanks

Songs

Food and drinks

  • Hooch, liquid produced during the making of sourdough starter
  • Hooper's Hooch, a 1990s brand of alcopop (spirit cooler)
  • Hoosh or Hooch, a stew made from water, biscuits, and pemmican
  • Hooch, a colloquial term for an alcoholic distilled beverage
  • Prison hooch, sometimes called pruno, an alcoholic beverage made covertly from various ingredients available in prison
  • Moonshine, illicit distilled spirits

Other uses

  • Hooch or hootch, Korean War and Vietnam War slang for a thatched hut or improvised living space (e.g., inside a sand-bagged bunker or improved "foxhole")
  • Hootch, military slang for tarpaulin