Definitions for hoops

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hoops hoop

Spelling: [hoop, hoo p]

IPA: /hup, hʊp/

Hoops is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 45 anagrams from letters in hoops (hoops).

Definitions for hoops

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 hoops

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

Examples for hoops

Education is a series of hoops to jump through, not a process of self-improvement or self-discovery.

I see, the dancing-girl is standing ready; they are handing her some hoops.

The parrots only, swinging in their hoops, filled the air with their cries.

There are also a 50-year-old lap pool and a smaller-than regulation basketball court with hoops on each end.

But even in hoops McHale should be able to handle the REM frontman, who attended the University of Georgia.

Given the hoops mania, though, the gym is the largest in the state, capable of holding 3,000-plus rabid fans.

The Graces were then summoned, and after them the Muses—all in hoops, powder, and paint.

It used to be used for the ribs of umbrellas and for ladies' hoops.

Do you remember the big blue parrots that swung in hoops from the chandeliers?

But Maryanne wore her hoops as a duchess wears her crinoline.