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hoop ohop hoop ohop oohp oohp hopo ohpo hpoo phoo opho poho hopo ohpo hpoo phoo opho poho ooph ooph opoh pooh opoh pooh

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Definitions and meaning of hoop

hoop

Pronunciation

• enPR: ho͞op, IPA^(key): /huːp/
• Rhymes: -uːp

Etymology 1

From Middle English hoop, hoope, from Old English hōp (“mound, raised land; in combination, circular object”), from Proto-Germanic *hōpą (“bend, bow, arch”) (compare Saterland Frisian Houp (“hoop”), Dutch hoep (“hoop”), Old Norse hóp (“bay, inlet”)), from Proto-Indo-European *kāb- (“to bend”) (compare Lithuanian kabė (“hook”), Old Church Slavonic кѫпъ (kǫpŭ, “hill, island”)). More at camp.

Noun

hoop (plural hoops)

2. A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.
3. Any circular band or ring

   Coordinate term: tyre

4. A circular band of metal, wood, or similar material used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.
5. (now chiefly historical) A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; (hence, by extension) a hoop petticoat or hoop skirt.
6. 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.
7. (UK, obsolete) An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.
8. (basketball) The rim part of a basketball net.
9. (US, in the plural, metonymically) The game of basketball.
10. A hoop earring.
11. (sports, usually in the plural) A horizontal stripe on the jersey.
    • 2003 May 21, Barry Glendenning "Minute-by-minute: Celtic 2 - 3 FC Porto (AET)" The Guardian (London):

      Porto are playing from right to left in blue and white stripes, blue shorts and blue socks. Celtic are in their usual green and white hoops, with white shorts and white socks.
12. (Australia, metonymically, slang, by extension) A jockey.
13. (figurative, usually in the plural) An obstacle that must be overcome in order to proceed.

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Verb

hoop (third-person singular simple present hoops, present participle hooping, simple past and past participle hooped)

1. (transitive) To bind or fasten using a hoop.

2. (transitive) To clasp; to encircle; to surround.
3. (intransitive, slang) To play basketball.

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Etymology 2

Noun

hoop (plural hoops)

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

Verb

hoop (third-person singular simple present hoops, present participle hooping, simple past and past participle hooped)

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
• hooper

References

Further reading

• hoop on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Pooh, ooph, phoo, pooh

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɦʊə̯p/

Etymology 1

From Dutch hoop, from Middle Dutch hôop, from Old Dutch *hōp, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz.

Noun

hoop (plural hope, diminutive hopie)

1. heap

Derived terms

• ophoop

Etymology 2

From Dutch hoop, from Middle Dutch hope, from Old Dutch *hopa.

Noun

hoop (uncountable)

1. hope

Etymology 3

From Dutch hopen, from Middle Dutch hōpen, from Old Dutch hopon, from Proto-West Germanic *hopōn.

Verb

hoop (present hoop, present participle hopende, past participle gehoop)

1. to hope

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɦoːp/
• Hyphenation: hoop
• Rhymes: -oːp

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch hope, from Old Dutch *hopa, from the verb hopon (modern Dutch hopen). Cognate with English hope.

Noun

hoop f (uncountable)

1. A hope, aspiration, wish

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of "hope"): wanhoop

Derived terms

• hopeloos
• hoopgevend
• hoopvol

Descendants

• Afrikaans: hoop

Verb

hoop

1. inflection of hopen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch hôop, from Old Dutch *hōp, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz.

Noun

hoop m (plural hopen, diminutive hoopje n)

1. A pile, heap, stack

   Synonyms: berg, stapel

2. (figuratively) A lot, heaps
3. A pile of manure, faeces
4. A mass.

   Synonym: massa

5. A multitude, a throng.

   Synonyms: drom, massa, menigte, schare

6. (obsolete) A unit of soldiers, a contingent.

Synonyms

• berg
• massa
• stapel

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: hoop
• Negerhollands: hoop, hoopje
• → Papiamentu: hoopi (from the diminutive)

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *hōp, from Proto-West Germanic *haup, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz.

Noun

hôop m

1. heap, pile
2. group of people or animals, troop, herd
3. meeting

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• hôpen

Descendants

• Dutch: hoop
• Limburgish: houp

Further reading

• “hoop”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “hoop (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

West Frisian

Etymology

See hoopje (“to hope”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hoːp/

Noun

hoop n (no plural)

1. hope

Alternative forms

• hope

Further reading

• “hoop”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Source: wiktionary.org