hootches

Behind the hootches were a pair of camouflaged bunkers.

Rogue Warrior Marcinko, Richard 1992

The Americans live in crude canvas tents, in "hootches" of rude wood and galvanized metal roofs without air conditioning, they trudge over dirt trails to communal showers and latrines.

The Country of Nada Sheehan, Edward R.F. 1986

We live seven and eight to a room, in one-room cabins called "hootches".

Kearns, Joseph T. Jr. 1967

For the exhibit, she contributed her husband's typewriter and copies of his book, his camera, photographs, magazine stories and "Black Power" flags that black soldiers placed inside their "hootches," the Vietnamese term they adapted for their barracks.

Memphis Commercial Appeal Stories 2010

The eight-inch [gun] was already gone, one of the dusters [twin 40 mm guns mounted on a tracked vehicle] was now in flames, the sandbag bunker beside it was flattened, an entire row of hootches was destroyed.

Al Gore's Patriotic Chore 2008

Most evenings, after a shower and a hot meal, Gore and the other "information specialists" kicked back on lawn chairs in front of their hootches, where Budweiser and marijuana were always available.

Al Gore's Patriotic Chore 2008

On this occasion, the battalion commander ordered Wilkerson and his unit to engage in "recon by fire" -- basically firing from their helicopters into brushy areas, tree lines, hootches (as Vietnamese peasant homes were known) or other structures, in an attempt to draw enemy fire and initiate contact.

Nick Turse: Lawrence Wilkerson's Lessons of War and Truth 2008

I've made little hootches like this many times. ever since childhood.

Why Do People Do This? 2005

I've made little hootches like this many times. ever since childhood.

Why Do People Do This? 2005

She was sitting in the courtyard peeling strips of bark which are pounded into a paste to add color and preservative to the cement exterior of the huts, or hootches.

The Village Bing West 2000