Hooch or hootch may refer to:

Places

Chattahoochee River The Chattahoochee River () is a river in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern United States. It forms the southern half of the Alabama and Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia border, as well as a portion of the Florida and Georgia border. It ...

, United States watercourse nicknamed "The Hooch"

People

* Hooch (surname), a list of fictional characters surnamed Hooch * De Hooch, a list of Dutch painters surnamed de Hooch *

Brad Daugherty (basketball) Bradley Lee Daugherty (born October 19, 1965), nicknamed "Big Train" and "El Gato Grande", is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the North Carolina Tar Heels and professionally with the Cleveland C ...

, “The Hooch” being one of his nicknames

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

*Hooch, the titular dog character in the film ''

Turner & Hooch ''Turner & Hooch'' is a 1989 American buddy cop comedy film starring Tom Hanks and Beasley the Dog (among others) as the eponymous characters respectively. The film also co-stars Mare Winningham, Craig T. Nelson and Reginald VelJohnson. It w ...

'' (1989), starring Tom Hanks

Songs

* "Hooch", a song by

Everything Everything, every-thing, or every thing, is all that exists; it is an antithesis of ''nothing'', or its complement. It is the totality of things relevant to some subject matter. Without expressed or implied limits, it may refer to . The uni ...

, considered to be the band's signature song * "Hooch", a song from Kelis' album ''

Food Food is any substance consumed by an organism for Nutrient, nutritional support. Food is usually of plant, animal, or Fungus, fungal origin and contains essential nutrients such as carbohydrates, fats, protein (nutrient), proteins, vitamins, ...

'' * "Hooch", a song on the Melvins' album ''

Houdini Erik Weisz (March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926), known professionally as Harry Houdini ( ), was a Hungarian-American escapologist, illusionist, and stunt performer noted for his escape acts. Houdini first attracted notice in vaudeville in ...

'' (1993) * "Hooch", a song from Sum 41's album ''

Does This Look Infected? ''Does This Look Infected?'' is the second studio album by Canadian rock band Sum 41. It was released on November 26, 2002. Music Composition The album is more aggressive, darker and heavier and has fewer elements of pop music than Sum 41' ...

'' * "The Hooch", a song from Travis Scott's album ''

Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight ''Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight'' is the second studio album by American rapper Travis Scott. It was released on September 2, 2016, through Grand Hustle Records and distributed by Epic Records. Originally promoted by the fake mixtape ''Days Be ...

Food and drinks

* Hooch, liquid produced during the making of

sourdough starter Sourdough is a type of bread that uses the fermentation by naturally occurring yeast and lactobacillus bacteria to raise the dough. In addition to leavening the bread, the fermentation process produces lactic acid, which gives the bread its dis ...

Hooper's Hooch Hooper's Hooch (often simply referred to as Hooch) is an alcopop that was most popular during the mid-1990s. The name ''Hoopers'' refers to William Hooper, inventor of the hot water bottle and manufacturer of lemonade in the 1840s whose trademark ...

, 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 Liquor ( , sometimes hard liquor), spirits, distilled spirits, or spiritous liquor are alcoholic drinks produced by the distillation of grains, fruits, vegetables, or sugar that have already gone through alcoholic fermentation. While the ...

* Prison hooch, sometimes called pruno, an alcoholic beverage made covertly from various ingredients available in prison *

Moonshine Moonshine is alcohol proof, high-proof liquor, traditionally made or distributed alcohol law, illegally. The name was derived from a tradition of distilling the alcohol (drug), alcohol at night to avoid detection. In the first decades of the ...

, illicit distilled spirits

Other uses

* Hooch or hootch, Korean War and Vietnam War slang for a thatched

hut A hut is a small dwelling, which may be constructed of various local materials. Huts are a type of vernacular architecture because they are built of readily available materials such as wood, snow, stone, grass, palm leaves, branches, clay, hid ...

or improvised living space (e.g., inside a sand-bagged bunker or improved "foxhole") * Hootch, military slang for

tarpaulin A tarpaulin ( , ) or tarp is a large sheet of strong, flexible, water-resistant or waterproof material, often cloth such as canvas or polyester coated with polyurethane, or made of plastics such as polyethylene. Tarpaulins often have reinf ...

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