Definitions for hood

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hood hood

Spelling: [hoo d]

IPA: /hʊd/

Hood is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 20 anagrams from letters in hood (dhoo).

Definitions for hood

noun

1. a soft or flexible covering for the head and neck, either separate or attached to a cloak, coat, or the like.
2. something resembling or suggesting such a covering, especially in shape, as certain petals or sepals.
3. the hinged, movable part of an automobile body covering the engine.
4. British. the roof of a carriage.
5. a metal cover or canopy for a stove, ventilator, etc.
6. Falconry. a cover for the entire head of a hawk, used when the bird is not in pursuit of game.
7. an ornamental ruffle or fold on the back of the shoulders of an academic gown, jurist's robe, etc.
8. a crest or band of color on the head of certain birds and animals.
9. a hoodlum.
10. John Bell, 1831–79, Confederate general in the U.S. Civil War.
11. Raymond Mathewson [math-yoo-suh n] /ˈmæθ yu sən/ (Show IPA), 1881–1934, U.S. architect.
12. Robin, Robin Hood.
13. Thomas, 1799–1845, English poet and humorist.
14. Mount, a volcanic peak in N Oregon, in the Cascade Range. 11,253 feet (3430 meters).
15. Slang. neighborhood.

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish with a hood.
2. to cover with or as if with a hood.

Origin of hood

before 900; 1925-30, Americanism for def 3; Middle English hode, Old English hōd; cognate with Old Frisian hōde, Dutch hoed, German Hut hat

Examples for hood

They should put dude down in the hood and let him get what he deserves.

The polite term is urban crime fiction, but what they are really called is “hood books.”

Micah is 10 years old and he had a coat geared to the season, a Patagonia winter jacket with a hood.

As McSpadden wailed in grief, Head climbed on the hood of the car to console her.

My thin face was nearly covered by my hair, which was flattened down by my hood.

In the past six years they have helped launching the careers of Alexander Wang, hood by Air and Altuzarra, just to name a few.

I had conducted so much and so violently since; but I was not too old to remember Biddy's hood.

I can still see the tall old woman, with her brown cape and hood.

He was carrying his gown and hood—I suppose it was that—on his arm.

We got his hat, and we picked up the hood of the sky-light, but could not find the boy.