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hoop

[ hoop, hoop ]

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. Jewelry. 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. Basketball Informal.
    1. the metal ring from which the net is suspended; rim.
    2. the metal ring and net taken together; the basket.
    3. the game of basketball.
  9. a decorative band, as around a mug or cup.


verb (used with object)

  1. to bind or fasten with or as if with a hoop or hoops.
  2. to encircle; surround.

hoop

1

/ huːp /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of whoop


hoop

2

/ huːp /

noun

  1. a rigid circular band of metal or wood
  2. something resembling this
    1. a band of iron that holds the staves of a barrel or cask together
    2. ( as modifier )

      hoop iron

  3. a child's toy shaped like a hoop and rolled on the ground or whirled around the body
  4. croquet any of the iron arches through which the ball is driven
    1. a light curved frame to spread out a skirt
    2. ( as modifier )

      a hoop skirt

      a hoop petticoat

  5. basketball the round metal frame to which the net is attached to form the basket
  6. a large ring through which performers or animals jump
  7. jewellery
    1. an earring consisting of one or more circles of metal, plastic, etc
    2. the part of a finger ring through which the finger fits
  8. informal.
    a jockey
  9. go through the hoop or be put through the hoop
    to be subjected to an ordeal

verb

  1. tr to surround with or as if with a hoop

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Derived Forms

  • ˈhoopˌlike, adjective
  • hooped, adjective

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Other Words From

  • hoopless adjective
  • hooplike adjective
  • un·hooped adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of hoop1

1125–75; Middle English hope, hoop, late Old English hōp; cognate with Dutch hoep

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Word History and Origins

Origin of hoop1

Old English hōp; related to Dutch hoep, Old Norse hōp bay, Lithuanian kabẽ hook

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Idioms and Phrases

see jump through hoops .

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Example Sentences

After I had filled him in on my family, we would start talking hoops.

Without someone creating and finishing near the hoop, the Raptors don’t make sense on offense — no matter how many triples they launch at the rim.

Everybody who plays basketball — from the pros to kids on the playground — loves putting the ball in the hoop.

Sink hoops of wire or pipes into your growing bed every three to four feet, and cover them with the long, narrow blankets of row cover, a spun synthetic fiber that allows light and rainwater to reach the growing bed.

Little brother Landen is a freshman in high school with his own hoop dreams.

Hoop skirts of the Civil War era relaxed into flowing, streamlined gowns.

Directed by fellow Chicagoan Steve James ( Hoop Dreams), Life Itself is a worthy tribute to the most popular film critic ever.

She sits polished in a hip yet age-appropriate (age-defying, really, for 76 ) leather jacket, and hoop earrings.

Then the second hoop is the profession, then industry, then finally society at large.

Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel first championed my film, Hoop Dreams, which was essential to its success.

This hoop must have been left by us last year at Careening Bay.

The afternoon was drawing on; they all hurried out into the playground, having got hold of every hoop to be found.

Procure a piece of flat iron similar to an iron hoop, bend it, as shown in the sketch, to make a piece 3 in.

Procure a good barrel with a bottom and cut off each alternate stave at both ends close up to the first hoop.

Mappo was so surprised, as he felt himself fairly flying through the paper hoop, that he did not know exactly what was happening.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

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