All hooch nearly drunk? Here's more! (7)
I believe the answer is:
alcohol
'more' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't understand how one could define the other.
'all hooch nearly drunk?' is the wordplay.
'nearly' means to remove the last letter.
'drunk?' is an anagram indicator (I've seen 'drunk' mean this).
'all'+'hooch'='allhooch'
'allhooch' with its final letter taken away is 'allhooc'.
'allhooc' anagrammed gives 'ALCOHOL'.
'here's' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for alcohol that I've seen before include "Booze" , "wine, say" , "Intoxicating substance" , "The hard stuff" , "It can make one merry" .)