Hooch

/huːtʃ/ noun

Strong liquor or alcohol, especially cheap or illegally made alcohol.

From the Tlingit people's word 'hutch' (a type of liquor), named for Hoochinoo, a village in Alaska; Americans during Prohibition used this term for illegal homemade alcohol.

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