Hoop

What do we mean by hoop?

A circular band of metal or wood put around a cask or barrel to bind the staves together. noun

A large wooden, plastic, or metal ring, especially one used as a plaything or for trained animals to jump through. noun

One of the lightweight circular supports for a hoop skirt. noun

A circular, ringlike earring. noun

One of a pair of circular frames, usually of wood or plastic, used to hold material taut for embroidery or similar needlework. noun

The basket. noun

A field goal. noun

The game of basketball. noun

A croquet wicket. noun

To hold together or support with a hoop. transitive verb

To encircle. transitive verb

(jump/go) To undergo a rigorous trial or examination. idiom

A bullfinch. noun

To bind or fasten with a hoop or with hoops; provide with a hoop: as, to hoop a barrel or puncheon.

To clasp; encircle; surround.

Same as whoop. noun

A circular band or flattened ring of wood, metal, or other material; especially, a band of wood or metal used to confine the staves of casks, tubs, etc., or for any similar purpose; also, that part of a finger-ring which surrounds the finger, as distinguished from the chaton. noun

A large ring of wood or iron for a child to trundle. noun

A circular band of stiff material serving to expand the skirt of a woman's dress: often used, either in the singular or in the plural, for the skirt itself so expanded. noun

A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.

A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop.

A circular band of metal, wood, or similar material used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.

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.

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.

An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.

The rim part of a basketball net.

(in plural, metonym) The game of basketball.

A hoop earring.

(metonym) A jockey; from a common pattern on the blouse.

(usually in the plural) A horizontal stripe on the jersey

(usually in the plural) A requirement that must be met in order to proceed.

The irish slang word for ass Urban Dictionary

To play basketball; to play a game of basketball Urban Dictionary

Your arsehole Urban Dictionary

To stick a drug up your ass for the purpose of bypassing the bodies filtration organs (liver, kidney) and introduce the drug directly into the blood stream in order to heighten the effects. Urban Dictionary

As a verb to shove something in your ass Urban Dictionary

Rear end of body, backside, ass, derrier, bottom, bum. Urban Dictionary

The rim of your asshole. Urban Dictionary

A jockey. (Australia) Urban Dictionary

Another term for African Americans. Used as a friendly alternative slur Urban Dictionary

To hoola hoop. Spinning a hoop around one's body. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to hoop:
hoop.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word hoop:
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Words that rhyme with hoop:
group, loop, scoop, soup, poop, stoop, dupe, recoup, coop, swoop, troop, nincompoop, whoop, snoop, troupe, coupe, droop, sloop, croup, loupe, drupe, goop, boop, stoup, regroup, koop, bloop, lupe, oop, stupe, toupe, guadalupe, loup, troup, workgroup, gloop, doupe, stroop, duck soup, subgroup, shoop, intergroup, guadeloupe, age group, roop, pressure group, stroup, cloop, groupe, newsgroup, croupe, ethnic group, vegetable soup, arup, hupe, paratroop, rupe, chicken coop, mock turtle soup, pea soup, turtle soup, chicken soup, knoop, working group, wynkoop, splinter group, shupe, peer group, interest group, kin group, encounter group, hupeh, occupational group, jazz group, rock group, kinship group, green pea soup, houp, abo group, ground loop, lentil soup, blood group, war whoop, musical group, shoup, social group, vinyl group, core group, play group, scout group, amphibole group, ethyl group, linkage group, arsenic group, roope, scout troop, cyanide group, stroupe, air group, methyl group.

Adjectives that are often used to describe hoop:
wooden, large, small, sacred, circular, little, old, thin, second, hula, golden, single, big, round, plain, outer, top, broad, strong, flaming, wide, inner, lower, iron, half, enormous, simple, barrel, third, oval, huge, vreed, rusty, flat, upper, plastic, larger, red, heavy, smaller, thick, shaped, inch, broken, narrow, bottom, front, double, tiny, flexible, vertical, oblong, rigid, fiery, light, immense, uniform, smooth, yellow, pelvic, bent, horizontal, dutch, blue, lowest, netted, elastic, vast, slender, twisted, stout, solid, outside, blazing, brazen, covered, extra, imaginary.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective hoop:
iron, skirts, poles, skirt, petticoats, petticoat, doo, nets, earrings, pole, back, jumping, tension, stick, sticks, wound, snake, courage, rolling, bounding, snakes, rings, craze, ring, game, handle, staves, shavings, driving, contest, making, tent, fashion, tree, tents, stress, scheffer, apparatus, shape, deedoo, contests, off, goop, cats, wood, dresses, wheel, ash, shaver, benders, dance, springs, spring, drum, schaffer, bow, makers, inches, bumper, dreams, maker.

Consonant match to hoop:
hope, hop, hype, heap, hip, hap, hep, hoppe, hupp, hepp, hopeh, hopp, hipp, hippe, houp, happ, happe, heppe, heape.

Words that sound like hoop:
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