hooches

In Garmsir, they made a hole in the wall between their hooches, leaky sleeping shelters built from sand-filled barriers, so they could talk into the night after a hard day of patrols through Taliban country.

Rx for Combat Stress: Comradeship Michael M. Phillips 2011

Due to their minimalist forms, B-huts were often called “hooches.”

A Nightmare’s Prayer Michael Franzak 2010

The B-huts, or “hooches,” as we called them, were minimalist wooden structures, eighteen by thirty-six feet, with half-inch plywood floors and walls.

A Nightmare’s Prayer Michael Franzak 2010

The entire COP is about a half-mile in circumference and composed of four parallel dirt roads lined with hooches (as well as a cafeteria, the COC, a gym, and hundreds of Hesco units).

S.D. Liddick: COP Haditha 2009

When they're not on a mission -- any event that takes them outside the COP -- or pulling post (guard duty for enlisted men) the Marines generally lounge in their hooches.

S.D. Liddick: COP Haditha 2009

When the gators were not questioning detainees, they were writing up reports or conferring with each other and their commanders, brainstorming strategy, eating, or sleeping in their air - conditioned “hooches,” small metal rectangular containers flown in by contractors.

The Ploy 2007

When the gators were not questioning detainees, they were writing up reports or conferring with each other and their commanders, brainstorming strategy, eating, or sleeping in their air - conditioned “hooches,” small metal rectangular containers flown in by contractors.

The Ploy 2007

There was a simple frame lodge, some scattered outbuildings, cabins for the sports, and a few downright primitive hooches for the guides, all set on a rise above the creek away from the worst of the mosquitoes.

Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008

There was a simple frame lodge, some scattered outbuildings, cabins for the sports, and a few downright primitive hooches for the guides, all set on a rise above the creek away from the worst of the mosquitoes.

Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008

I'd also like to remind you that the reputation "Catholic girls are the biggest hooches." did not refer to the Irish.

DesignerBlog Will 2008