Definitions for hoop

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Spelling: [hoop, hoo p]

IPA: /hup, hʊp/

Hoop is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 18 anagrams from letters in hoop (hoop).

Definitions for 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. 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. hoop skirt.
9. Basketball Informal. the metal ring from which the net is suspended; rim. the metal ring and net taken together; the basket. the game of basketball.
10. a decorative band, as around a mug or cup.
11. hoop iron.

verb (used with object)

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

Origin of hoop

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

Examples for hoop

Put it into your hoop, and leave it in the oven an hour and a quarter.

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

The Iroquois had shields of hide stretched on hoop for defensive armor.

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

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

In the south, too, hoop iron or whalebone is used for runner shoeing.

The blacksmith was swinging along the road, with a hoop over his shoulder.

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

Nor did her hips want the assistance of a hoop to extend them.

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