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hoop

  [hoop, hoop]
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–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.
9. 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
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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)   
n.  

  1. A circular band of metal or wood put around a cask or barrel to bind the staves together.

  2. A large wooden, plastic, or metal ring, especially one used as a plaything or for trained animals to jump through.

  3. One of the lightweight circular supports for a hoop skirt.

  4. A circular, ringlike earring.

  5. One of a pair of circular wooden or metal frames used to hold material taut for embroidery or similar needlework.

  6. Basketball

    1. The basket.

    2. A field goal: hit a big hoop.

    3. also hoops The game of basketball.

  7. Sports A croquet wicket.

tr.v.   hooped, hoop·ing, hoops

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

  2. To encircle.


[Middle English hop.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
hoops

  1. n.
    the game of basketball. : Welcome to another evening of college hoops, brought to you by the Nova Motor Company.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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