hoop

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See also: Hoop and hopp

English

A basketball hoop.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: ho͞op, IPA(key): /huːp/
  • Audio (AU):(file)
  • Rhymes: -uːp

Etymology 1

From Middle English hoop, hoope, from Old English hōp (“mound, raised land; in combination, circular object”), from Proto-Germanic *hōpą (“bend, bow, arch”) (compare Saterland Frisian Houp (“hoop”), Dutch hoep (“hoop”), Old Norse hóp (“bay, inlet”)), from Proto-Indo-European *kāb- (“to bend”) (compare Lithuanian kabė (“hook”), Old Church Slavonic кѫпъ (kǫpŭ, “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.
    the cheese hoop, or cylinder in which the curd is pressed in making cheese
  3. A circular band of metal, wood, or similar material used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.
  4. (now chiefly historical) A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; (hence, by extension) a hoop petticoat or hoop skirt.
    • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 16:
      He took the removed chair and drew it so near mine, squatting in it with his ugly weight, that he pressed upon my hoop.
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
      The door of the room now flew open, and, after pushing in her hoop sideways before her, entered Lady Bellaston, who having first made a very low courtesy to Mrs Fitzpatrick, and as low a one to Mr Jones, was ushered to the upper end of the room.
  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. (UK, obsolete) An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
  7. (basketball) The rim part of a basketball net.
  8. (US, in the plural, metonymically) The game of basketball.
    • 2018 July 30, Bruce Y. Lee, “How This Sport Is Changing Kids' Health Around The World”, in Forbes‎[1]:
      Articles ranging from Chris Johnson's "For Europeans, hoops is the second-most beautiful game" for The Globe and Mail to Adam Minter's "China Is Hoops Country" for Bloomberg Opinion have detailed the rise in basketball in a wide range of countries, including the most populous ones in the world.
  9. A hoop earring.
  10. (Australia, metonymically, informal, dated) A jockey; from a common pattern on the blouse.[1]
  11. (sports, usually in the plural) A horizontal stripe on the jersey
    • 2003 May 21, Barry Glendenning "Minute-by-minute: Celtic 2 - 3 FC Porto (AET)" The Guardian (London):
      Porto are playing from right to left in blue and white stripes, blue shorts and blue socks. Celtic are in their usual green and white hoops, with white shorts and white socks.
    • 2009 June 20, Ian O'Riordan "Tipperary look in better shape" The Irish Times:
      Tipperary v Clare: IF ANYTHING can relight the fire of the old Clare hurling passion it’s the sight of the blue jersey with the gold hoop.
  12. (figurative, usually in the plural) A requirement that must be met in order to proceed.
    • 1997, Security and Freedom Through Encryption (SAFE) Act:
      But if they want to export that, then they do have to go through several hoops that you will impose upon them.
    • 2000, Ed Bott, Special Edition Using Microsoft Windows, →ISBN, page 252:
      Windows forces you to jump through several hoops before allowing you to delete a partition — and for good reason.
    • 2008, Patricia Barry, Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage For Dummies, →ISBN, page 49:
      Although restrictions like prior authorization and step therapy may be of benefit in protecting people's health or even saving them money, most Medicare beneficiaries regard them as a hassle — just more hoops to go through to get the drugs they need.
    • 2011, Jason Toll, Moscow Bound, →ISBN:
      So it looks certain that I will be returning to Australia, when at the last, I am offered a job by a London school that is willing to jump through the hoops involved to sponsor me for a visa.
Derived terms
Translations
quart pot — see quart pot
hoop earring — see hoop earring
jockey — see jockey

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.
    to hoop a barrel or puncheon
  2. (transitive) To clasp; to encircle; to surround.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
Translations

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.
Derived terms

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “hoop”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Further reading

References

  1. ^ “hoop”, entry in 1989, Joan Hughes, Australian Words and Their Origins, page 261.

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Etymology 1

Noun

hoop (plural hope, diminutive hopie)

  1. heap
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Dutch hopen.

Noun

hoop (uncountable)

  1. hope

Verb

hoop (present hoop, present participle hopende, past participle gehoop)

  1. to hope

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch hope, from Old Dutch *hopa, from the verb hopon (modern Dutch hopen). Cognate with English hope.

Noun

hoop f (uncountable)

  1. A hope, aspiration, wish
Antonyms
Derived terms

Verb

hoop

  1. (deprecated template usage) first-person singular present indicative of hopen
  2. (deprecated template usage) imperative of hopen

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch hôop, from Old Dutch *hōp, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz.

Noun

hoop m (plural hopen, diminutive hoopje n)

  1. A pile, heap, stack
  2. (figuratively) A lot, heaps
  3. A pile of manure, faeces
Synonyms
Derived terms

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *hōp, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz.

Noun

hôop m

  1. heap, pile
  2. group of people or animals, troop, herd
  3. meeting

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Dutch: hoop
  • Limburgish: houp

Further reading

West Frisian

Pronunciation

Noun

hoop n (no plural)

  1. hope

Alternative forms

Further reading

  • “hoop”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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