hoop

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hoop

[hoop, hoo

–noun

1.	a circular band or ring of metal, wood, or other stiff material.

2.	such a band for holding together the staves of a cask, tub, etc.

3.	a large ring of iron, wood, plastic, etc., used as a plaything for a child to roll along the ground.

4.	a circular or ringlike object, part, figure, etc.

5.	the shank of a finger ring.

6.	Croquet. a wicket.

7.	a circular band of stiff material used to expand and display a woman's skirt.

8.	hoop skirt.

Basketball Informal.

a.	the metal ring from which the net is suspended; rim.

b.	the metal ring and net taken together; the basket.

c.	the game of basketball.

10.	a decorative band, as around a mug or cup.

11.	hoop iron.

–verb (used with object)

12.	to bind or fasten with or as if with a hoop or hoops.

13.	to encircle; surround.

Origin:
1125–75; ME hope, hoop, late OE hōp; c. D hoep

Related forms:

hoopless, adjective

hooplike, adjective

hoop skirt

–noun

1.	a woman's skirt made to stand out and drape in a stiff bell-like shape from the waist by an undergarment framework of flexible hoops connected by tapes.

2.	the framework for such a skirt.

Also called hoop.

Origin:
1855–60, Americanism

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hoop (hōōp, hŏŏp)

A circular band of metal or wood put around a cask or barrel to bind the staves together.
A large wooden, plastic, or metal ring, especially one used as a plaything or for trained animals to jump through.
One of the lightweight circular supports for a hoop skirt.
A circular, ringlike earring.
One of a pair of circular wooden or metal frames used to hold material taut for embroidery or similar needlework.
Basketball
1. The basket.
2. A field goal: hit a big hoop.
3. also hoops The game of basketball.
Sports A croquet wicket.

tr.v. hooped, hoop·ing, hoops

To hold together or support with or as if with a hoop.
To encircle.

[Middle English hop.]

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Hoop

Hoop\, n. [OE. hope; akin to D. hoep, hoepel.]

1. A pliant strip of wood or metal bent in a circular form, and united at the ends, for holding together the staves of casks, tubs, etc.

2. A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop, as the cylinder (cheese hoop) in which the curd is pressed in making cheese.

3. A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; crinoline; -- used chiefly in the plural.

Though stiff with hoops, and armed with ribs of whale. --Pope.

4. A quart pot; -- so called because originally bound with hoops, like a barrel. Also, a portion of the contents measured by the distance between the hoops. [Obs.]

5. An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks. [Eng.] --Halliwell.

Bulge hoop, Chine hoop, Quarter hoop, the hoop nearest the middle of a cask, that nearest the end, and the intermediate hoop between these two, respectively.

Flat hoop, a wooden hoop dressed flat on both sides.

Half-round hoop, a wooden hoop left rounding and undressed on the outside.

Hoop iron, iron in thin narrow strips, used for making hoops.

Hoop lock, the fastening for uniting the ends of wooden hoops by notching and interlocking them.

Hoop skirt, a framework of hoops for expanding the skirts of a woman's dress; -- called also hoop petticoat.

Hoop snake (Zo["o]l.), a harmless snake of the Southern United States (Abaster erythrogrammus); -- so called from the mistaken notion that it curves itself into a hoop, taking its tail into its mouth, and rolls along with great velocity.

Hoop tree (Bot.), a small West Indian tree (Melia sempervirens), of the Mahogany family.

Hoop

Hoop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hooped; p. pr. & vb. n. Hooping.]

1. To bind or fasten with hoops; as, to hoop a barrel or puncheon.

2. To clasp; to encircle; to surround. --Shak.

Hoop

Hoop\, v. i. [OE. houpen; cf. F. houper to hoop, to shout; -- a hunting term, prob. fr. houp, an interj. used in calling. Cf. Whoop.]

1. To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout. [Usually written whoop.]

2. To whoop, as in whooping cough. See Whoop.

Hooping cough. (Med.) See Whooping cough.

Hoop

Hoop\, v. t. [Written also whoop.]

1. To drive or follow with a shout. "To be hooped out of Rome." --Shak.

2. To call by a shout or peculiar cry.

Hoop

Hoop\, n. 1. A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.

2. (Zo["o]l.) The hoopoe. See Hoopoe.

Language Translation for : hoop

Spanish: aro,

German: der Reifen,

Japanese: 輪

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hoop

c.1175, from O.E. *hop, from P.Gmc. *khopa-, a Low Ger.-Frisian word (cf. O.Fris. hop, Du. hoep "hoop," O.N. hop "a small bay"). Hoop-petticoat is attested from 1711.

hoop

see jump through hoops.

hoop

circular toy adaptable to many games, children's and adults', probably the most ubiquitous of the world's toys, after the ball. The ancient Greeks advocated hoop rolling as a beneficial exercise for those not very strong. It was also used as a toy by both Greek and Roman children, as graphic representations indicate. Most of these ancient hoops were of metal. Most later hoops were of wood, though occasionally fitted with metal tires, as in the hoop-rolling-fad days of 19th-century England and the United States. North American Indians used the hoop as a target in teaching accuracy of throwing to the young. Adult Eskimos played a game that involved throwing poles through a rolling hoop.

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