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Definition hoop

Etymology 1

From Middle English hoop, hoope, from Old English h?p (“mound, raised land; in combination, circular object”), from Proto-Germanic *h?p? (“bend, bow, arch”) (compare Dutch hoep), from Proto-Indo-European *k?b- (“to bend”) (compare Lithuanian kab? (“hook”), Old Church Slavonic ???? (k?p?, “hill, island”)). More at camp.

Noun

hoop (plural hoops)

1. A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.
2. A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop.
3. A circular band of metal, wood, or similar material used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.
4. (chiefly in the plural) A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; crinoline.
5. 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.
6. (Britain, obsolete) An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.
7. (US, in the plural) The game of basketball.
8. A hoop earring.
9. (Australia, metonymically, informal, dated) A jockey; from a common pattern on the blouse.
10. (sports) (usually plural) A horizontal stripe on the jersey
11. (usually plural) A requirement that must be met in order to proceed.

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.

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.

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