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hooded

[hood-id] Origin

hood·ed

[hood-id]
adjective
1.
having, or covered with, a hood: a hooded jacket.
3.
Zoology. having on the head a hoodlike formation, crest, arrangement of colors, or the like.
4.
Botany. cucullate.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English hodid. See hood1, -ed3

hood·ed·ness, noun

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cold-blooded vertebrate such as turtles, snakes, lizards, crocodilians, amphisbaenians and tuatara
invertebrate phylum with characteristic stinging structures
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hood

1[hood]
noun
1.
a soft or flexible covering for the head and neck, either separate or attached to a cloak, coat, or the like.
2.
something resembling or suggesting such a covering, especially in shape, as certain petals or sepals.
3.
the hinged, movable part of an automobile body covering the engine.
4.
British. the roof of a carriage.
5.
a metal cover or canopy for a stove, ventilator, etc.
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6.
Falconry. a cover for the entire head of a hawk, used when the bird is not in pursuit of game.
7.
an ornamental ruffle or fold on the back of the shoulders of an academic gown, jurist's robe, etc.
8.
a crest or band of color on the head of certain birds and animals.
COLLAPSE
verb (used with object)
9.
to furnish with a hood.
10.
to cover with or as if with a hood.

Origin:
before 900; 1925–30, Americanism for def. 3; Middle English hode, Old English hōd; cognate with Old Frisian hōde, Dutch hoed, German Hut hat

hood·less, adjective
hood·like, adjective
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hooded (ˈhʊdɪd)
 
adj
1.  covered with, having, or shaped like a hood
2.  (of eyes) having heavy eyelids that appear to be half closed

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hood
"gangster," 1930, Amer.Eng., shortened form of hoodlum. As a shortened form of neighborhood it began 1980s in Los Angeles black slang.
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hood definition


  1. n.
    a hoodlum. : A couple of hoods hassled us on the street.
  2. n.
    the neighborhood; the ghetto; any neighborhood. : Back in the hood, Bob's considered an important guy.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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