Hoop

Pronunciation

• enPR: hoÍžop, IPA: /huːp/
• Rhymes: -uːp

From Middle English hoop, hoope, from Old English hōp ("mound, raised land", in combination, also "circular object"), from Proto-Germanic *hōpą ("bend, bow, arch") (compare Dutch hoep), from Proto-Indo-European *kāb- ("to bend") (compare Lithuanian kabė ("hook"), Old Church Slavonic (kǫpŭ, "hill, island")). More at camp.

Full definition of hoop

Noun

1. A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.
2. A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop.the cheese hoop, or cylinder in which the curd is pressed in making cheese
3. (mostly, in plural) A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; crinoline.
• Alexander Popestiff with hoops, and armed with ribs of whale
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.
5. (UK, obsolete) An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.
6. plural The game of basketball.
7. A hoop earring.
8. (Australia, metonym, informal, dated) A jockey; from a common pattern on the blouse.“%22hoops%22+australia+OR+jockey+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22hoop%22|%22hoops%22+australia+OR+jockey+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=80yET8v1AsvumAWsn4HjBw&redir_esc=y hoop”, entry in 1989, Joan Hughes, Australian Words and Their Origins, page 261.

Derived terms

• hula hoop
• jump through hoops

Verb

1. (transitive) To bind or fasten using a hoop.to hoop a barrel or puncheon
2. (transitive) To clasp; to encircle; to surround.

Noun

1. A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.
2. The hoopoe.

Verb

1. (dated) To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout.
2. (dated) To whoop, as in whooping cough.

Derived terms

• hooping cough

Anagrams

• phoo, Pooh, pooh