Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. see booby-hutch n. (1)

2. (Aus.) a home, a house.

[1567		R. Edwards Damon and Pithias (1571) iii: iacke: That Pope was a mery fellows, of whom folke talke so much. grimme: Had to be mery withal, had goulde enough in his hutch].
1907		N.Z. Truth 26 Jan. 6/1: [headline] A Horrid Hutch Narks a Neighbourhood.
1908		‘Doss Chiderdoss’ ‘Disaster Averted’ Sporting Times 23 May 1/3: It ’appened, by the strangest coincidence ever known, / That a burglar broke into our ’appy ’utch.
1914		E. Dyson Spats’ Fact’ry (1922) 38: Bump him off, Sis, iv yer batlin’ fer a hutch iv yer own.
1915		Honk! 18 Jan. 10/2: Their Hutch in Sunny climes they’ve left / To fight the heathen Turk.
1935		J. O’Hara Butterfield 8 275: [The] hysterical noise of thousands of straphangers and motorists hurrying home to their hutches.

3. (US) an office, usu. small.

[1913		Eve. News (Sydney) 3 July 11/4: The motor-bus driver is rapidly creating a new language. His omnibus is the ‘hutch,’ his passengers ‘rabbits’] .
1939		R. Chandler Big Sleep 48: Snap it up [...] I’ll be in my hutch.
1942		R. Chandler High Window 150: He says, ‘Get Palermo.’ So we come back to the hutch and phone Palermo and Palermo says he will be right down.
1979		J. Morrow Confessions of Proinsias O’Toole 25: On leaving the hutch [...] I was buttonholed by a pair of Prod dwarfs.

4. (US) a nightclub.

1952

(con. 1920) G. Fowler Schnozzola 29: This downstairs hutch did a noisy business.

5. (US drugs) a prison.

1957

El Paso Herald (TX) 3 Oct. 17/4: A few examples of [...] ‘calo’ [...] La Tuna Correctional institution (hutch).