Hoop

Definition: Hoop

Hoop

Noun

1. A light curved skeleton to spread out a skirt.

2. A rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling; "there was still a rusty iron hoop for tying a horse".

3. A small arch used as croquet equipment.

4. Horizontal hoop with a net through which players try to throw the basketball.

Verb

1. Bind or fasten with a hoop; "hoop vats".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "hoop" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references)

Etymology: Hoop \Hoop\, noun. [Old English hope; akin to Dutch hoep, hoepel.]. (references)

Transportation

Building & Civil Engineering

Dream Interpretation

Food & Agriculture

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Hoop

Circularity

Circle, circlet, ring, areola, hoop, roundlet, annulus, annulet, bracelet, armlet; ringlet; eye, loop, wheel; cycle, orb, orbit, rundle, zone, belt, cordon, band; contrate wheel, crown wheel; hub; nave; sash, girdle, cestus, cincture, baldric, fillet, fascia, wreath, garland; crown, corona, coronet, chaplet, snood, necklace, collar; noose, lasso, lassoo.

Crosswords: Hoop

Afrikaan (hope), Dutch (accumulation, are, bevy, cluster, collection, crowd, good great group, group, heap, herd, hope, mass, multitude, pack, pile, set, stack).

Well, I don't care if it's God's own personal anti-son-of-a-bitch machine, or a giant hoola hoop, we're not gonna let 'em have it (Halo: Combat Evolved; writing credit: Brannon Boren; Matt Soell)

There would be a battalion of men in hoop skirts right behind you. (M*A*S*H; writing credit: Larry Gelbart)

It seems that I was allergic to the crap metal hoop that I paid $19.95 to have jammed into my nose (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset)

Move us to the nth hoop (Groove Is in the Heart; performing artist: Deee-Lite)

I seen hoop dreams deflate like a true fiend's weight (Izzo (H.O.V.A.); performing artist: Jay-Z)

In a circle in a hoop that never ends (Colors of the wind; performing artist: Vanessa Williams)

Laat alle hoop varen (1973)

Hoop en verlangen (1960)

Ik fluit in de hoop dat je zult komen' (1943)

Op hoop van zegen (1934)

The Hoop Life (1999)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Van der Hoop Effektenbank N.V.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The World Market for Iron or Steel Barbed Wire and Twisted Hoop or Single Flat Wire Loosely Twisted Double Wire Used for Fencing: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Hoop Busting Super Stars of the Nba (reference)

• Hoop City (reference)

• Hoop Roots (reference)

• Hoop Snakes, Hide Behinds, and Side-Hill Winders: Tall Tales from the Adirondacks (reference)

• Official NBA Trivia: The Ultimate Team-by-Team Challenge for Hoop Fans (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Hoop Scoop Magazine (reference)

• Hoop Scoop Magazine C-w Hoop Scoop Newsletter (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Hoop Dreams (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Hoop Dee Doo (reference)

• Hoop Dreams - An Extraordinary True Story: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Netshelter Cable Hoop Kit (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Hoop Column Antenna. Credit: NASA.

Girl with hoop and woman in walking dress. Credit: Library of Congress.

Hoop la!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Hoop skirt back in glorious beauty. Credit: Library of Congress.

Indian hoop dance. Molalla Buckeroo. Molalla, Oregon. Credit: Library of Congress.

Isleta, New Mexico. Fireman of a passing freight train on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad picking up a message. The lower hoop is for the conductor at the rear end. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expressions using "hoop": barrel hoop ♦ basketball hoop ♦ bilge hoop ♦ Bulge hoop ♦ chimb hoop ♦ chime hoop ♦ Chine hoop ♦ collar hoop ♦ eccentric hoop ♦ embroidery hoop ♦ Flat hoop ♦ Gathering hoop ♦ Grace hoop ♦ hoop ash ♦ hoop guard ♦ hoop iron ♦ Hoop lock ♦ hoop net ♦ hoop petticoat ♦ hoop pine ♦ hoop rivet ♦ hoop skirt ♦ hoop snake ♦ hoop stress ♦ Hoop tree ♦ Mast hoop ♦ quarter hoop ♦ trundle a hoop. Additional references.

Beginning with "hoop": hoop-back, hoop-iron, hoop-item, hoop-la, hoop-net, hoop-petticoat, hoop-skirt, hoop-skirts, hoop-tiles.

Ending with "hoop": Cock-a-hoop, half-hoop, hula-hoop.

Albanian

shtrëngoj me rrathë, rreth zhuponi, rreth për të luajtur, rreth metalik, rreth fuçie (band, lag). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قوس (arc, arch, bow, bracket), ‏وضع العراقيل, ‏طوق (band, be hemmed in, belt, besiege, cincture, circle, circumvent, clip, collar, compass, corral, embrace, encircle, enclose, encompass, enfold, entrench, envelop, fret, gird, girdle, hedge, hem, impale, inclose, include, invest, outflank, ring, round, strap, surround, take off, zone), ‏طارة, ‏الطوق الموسع. (various references)

Bulgarian 

стягам (accouter, accoutre, bind, brace, compact, constrain, constrict, do up, gripe, hold in, impact, lace, lace up, lock, pack, pinch, preen, screw up, straiten, tense, tighten, trim, truss), скоба (brace, bracing, bracket, clamp, clinch, clip, corbel, dog nail, girdle, holdfast, loop, rim, shackle, staple, tie, yoke), ръбът на коша, рамка (casing, flake, frame, framework, holder, pelmet, rack, rim, setting), халка (circlet, clip, hanger, loop, ring, wedding ring), колело (cart wheel, wheel), врата (door, gate, gateway, goal, home), венец (chaplet, felloe, gum, rim, rope, wreath), обръч (band, binding, clip, collar, ring), обкръжавам (beleaguer, beset, circle, embosom, encircle, encompass, engird, envelop, environ, invest, rabble, rim, ring, surround), надявам обръч на, пръстен (circle, circlet, earthen, rim, ring, terrene, washer). (various references)

Chinese 

箍 (bind with hoops). (various references)

Czech

obruè koše, obruè (band), kolo (bicycle, bike, bout, coil, cycle, round, wheel), branka (gate, goal, wicket). (various references)

Danish

toendebaand (cask hoop), tøndebånd, tødebånd, staalbaand (band, sheet, steel rolled strip, steel strip, steelband, strap, strip, strip steel), spiralarmering (circumferential steel), gaffel (fork), fadebånd, baandjern (band, sheet, steel strip, steelband, strap, strip, strip steel), bøjle (bail, clamp, coulter clamp, coulter clip, fork, swinging yoke). (various references)

Dutch

hoepel. (various references)

Esperanto

ringego. (various references)

Farsi 

حلقه زدن به , حلقه (Chain, Curl, Earring, Gird, Girdle, Hank, Loop, Ran, Ring, Segment, Vortex, Whorl, Wicket, Wisp), تسمه زدن , تسمه (Bail, Belt, Halter, Lash, Ribbon, Strop, Thong), انگشتر (Ring), احاطه کردن (Beset, Box, Circle, Circuit, Corral, Encircle, Encompass, Envelop, Girdle, Hedge, Hem, Impale, Orb, Pale, Ring, Skirt, Sphere). (various references)

Finnish

vanne (band, rim). (various references)

French

cercle, cerceau (hoop skirt). (various references)

German

reifen (band, bangle, gestate, hoops, incubate, mature, mellow, ripen, tire, tireUS, tyre, yellow), reif (bangle, circlet, Hoar, hoarfrost, hoar-frost, mature, maturely, mellowly, ready, rime, ripe, seasoned), band (assembly line, band, belt, bond, cement, connection, conveyor belt, frequency band, group, lace, league, ligament, ligated, line, reel, ribbon, strap, string, stripe, tape, tie, track, volume, wavelength). (various references)

Greek 

κρίκοσ (link, toggle), στεφάνι βαρέλιου, στεφάνι βαρελιού, στεφάνι (chaplet, crown, wreath), στεφάνη (annulus, cordon, corona, rim), βλήτρο (band, dowel, pin, plunger, sheet, shot pin, spring plunger, steel strip, steelband, stop pin, strap, strip, strip steel). (various references)

Hebrew 

חשוק (beloved, desired, rim, ring), גלגל (cycle, helm, orb, pulley, sphere, wheel), בירית (clip, garter, kneeband). (various references)

Hungarian

karika (circle, collar, keeper, loop, ring, round, roundel), abroncs (band, retainer ring, retaining ring, rim). (various references)

Indonesian

gelindingan (caster), gelangan (bracelet), bundaran (traffic). (various references)

Irish

iodh. (various references)

Italian

cerchio (circle, orb, rim, ring, round). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

輪 (circle, counter for wheels and flowers, ring). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たが (binding), フープ , わ (circle, counter for birds, counter for bundles, counter for rabbits, harmony, link, loop, peace, ring, sum, wheel). (various references)

Korean 

굴렁쇠 (HOOPS). (various references)

Manx

lhoob (bend, coil, convolution, curve, flexion, gulf, hank, link, rabbit snare, shackle, snare, staple clasp, stitch, twine, twine of snake, twirl), kiarkley (circulation, circumnavigate), figgan (circular frame), cur figgan er. (various references)

Norwegian

tønnebånd, bøyle. (various references)

Pig Latin

oophay.(various references)

Portuguese

arco (arc, arch, arch-, archway, bend, rim, round, tire). (various references)

Romanian

strigãt (bawl, call, calling, cry, ejaculation, halloo, hoot, hue, outcry, roar, roaring, scream, shout, shriek, squall, yell), striga (bark out, bawl, bellow, brawl, break, call, call out, clamor, clamour, cry, cry cherries, cry out, ejaculate, hail, hallo, halloo, hollo, howl, page, roar, scream, screech, shout, shriek, shriek out, squall, vociferate, yell), inel (circle, circlet, curl, ferrule, link, Lovelock, ring, ringlet), fereca (arrest, chain, fascinate, rivet, shoe), crinolinã (crinoline, Farthingale, pannier), cercui (circumscribe, encircle, limit, surround), cerc metalic, cerc (band, circle, circles, class, compass, coterie, district, extent, range, rim, ring, round, set, sphere, zone), cântatul cocoşului (crow), înconjura (beset, besiege, by pass, circumambulate, close, compass, embosom, encircle, enclose, encompass, engirdle, ensphere, environ, flank, gird, girdle, go, go round, hem, pale, parclose, rim, round, shut in, surround, wreathe), încercui (besiege, by pass, encircle, encompass, enring, ensphere, orb, rim, shut in, surround), ţipãt al pasãre de pradã nocturne, ţipa (bawl, call, cry, honk, hoot, pipe, roar, scream, screech, shout, shriek, squall, squeal, yell). (various references)

Russian 

обруч (collar, ring). (various references)

Scottish

cearcall (a hoop, circle, ring). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

udariti obruč, petlja (eye, loop, noose, runner, sphincter, stitch), papak (cloven hoof), opkoliti (begird, beleaguer, besiege, invest, ring, surround), obruč (felloe, felly), karika (grummet, link, thimble). (various references)

Spanish

aro (arum, earring, ring). (various references)

Swedish

tunnband (barrel hoop), tunn-, rullband (treadmill). (various references)

Thai

ห่วง (loop, ring). (various references)

Turkish

halka (annulus, bangle, circle, coil, collet, link, quoits, ring, round, torus, whorl, wreath), ötmek (caw, coo, crow, honk, hoot, jug, sing, sing out, warble, whistle), çığlık atmak (cry, cry out, scream, screech, shriek, shriek out, skirl, whoop), çember (bail, basket, circle, circuit, circumference, girth, ring, round), çember takmak, çembere almak (encircle, pocket, ring), çembere sokmak, öksürme (cough), çığlık (crow, cry, scream, shouting, shriek, skirl, whoop, yell), ötme (blast, crowing, singing, song, sounding, squeal, warble), yüzük (ring), bağırma (bellow, exclamation, hollo, holloa, howl, outcry, scream, shout, whoop, yell), bağırmak (bark, bark at, bawl, bell, bellow, call, cry, ejaculate, exclaim, holler, hollo, holloa, hoot, howl, roar, scream, shout, shout at, shout out, sing out, troat, trumpet, whoop, yell), daire (apartment, board, bureau, circle, department, disc, rooms, round, verge), kasnak (cylinder, embroidery frame, pulley, rim, stretcher, taboret, tabouret, tambour), pota (basket, crucible, melting pot, pot), potaya atmak, öksürmek (bark, cough, harrumph, hawk). (various references)

Turkmen 

gurюaw. (various references)

Ukrainian

скріпляти обручем, кільце (circle, circus, cirque, coil, grummet, orb, ring, ringlet), обід (chow, dinner, felloe, rim), обруч (coil), зойкнути, закричати (call). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tiếng kêu "húp. (various references)

Welsh

cylch (circle, round, sphere). (various references)

gur. (various references)

circuli, circulis, circulo, circulos, circulum, circulus, trochus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "hoop": hooped, hooper, hoopers, hooping, hoopla, hooplas, hoopless, hooplike, hoopoe, hoopoes, hoopoo, hoopoos, hoops, hoopskirt, hoopskirts, hoopster, hoopsters. (additional references)

Words ending with "hoop": whoop. (additional references)

Words containing "hoop": whooped, whoopee, whoopees, whooper, whoopers, whoopie, whooping, whoopla, whooplas, whoops. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Hoop" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: choop, Chooph, haup, hepo, heup, Hiep, hiop, hisop, hoab, hoco, hoho, hojo, holopic, holp, homp, Hoog, hooh, Hool, hoon, hooo, hoooo, hoope, Hoopi, hoopy, hoor, hoov, hopa, hopf, hopo, hopovo, hopp, hoyo, Htoo, Huip, hu-opp, hup, huup, rhodope, zoop. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: pooh.

-1 letter: hop, oho, ooh, poh.

-2 letters: ho, oh, op.

+1 letter: hoops, oomph, phono, photo, pooch, poohs, whoop.

+2 letters: gonoph, hookup, hooped, hooper, hoopla, hoopoe, hoopoo, morpho, oompah, oomphs, phonon, phonos, phooey, photog, photon, photos, poncho, poohed, whoops.

+3 letters: gonophs, harpoon, hencoop, hookups, hoopers, hooping, hooplas, hoopoes, hoopoos, hoptoad, hotspot, morphos, oompahs, oophyte, phonons, photoed, photogs, photons, ponchos, pooched, pooches, pooftah, poohing, poorish, pothole, pothook, potshot, shampoo, shopboy, toyshop, typhoon, upshoot, whooped, whoopee, whooper, whoopie, whoopla.