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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

–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

Link To hoops

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

[Middle English hop.]

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