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Hoops   /hups/   Listen
Hoops

noun
1.
A game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop.  Synonyms: basketball, basketball game.


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.  Synonym: ring.
3.
A small arch used as croquet equipment.  Synonym: wicket.
4.
Horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball.  Synonyms: basket, basketball hoop.
verb
(past & past part. hooped; pres. part. hooping)
1.
Bind or fasten with a hoop.



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"Hoops" Quotes from Famous Books



... afraid to have him go up on a pile of elephants and jump through hoops like these folks," answered Bab, poring over her pictured ...
— Under the Lilacs • Louisa May Alcott
... flame—the fire was still smouldering —had been the immaculate Tomlins, who had won her heart by going into raptures, in one of his stage whispers, over the classic outlines of her face. This outburst resulted in Miss Euphemia appearing the following week in a silk gown, a Greek fillet and no hoops—a costume which Waller faithfully portrayed on the side-wall of the attic the night of her appearance—the fillet being reproduced by a strip of brass which the artist had torn from his easel and nailed to the plaster, and the classic curves of her hair ...
— The Fortunes of Oliver Horn • F. Hopkinson Smith
... tossed it wildly about. Little pigtailed boys shrieked as they looked at its gaping mouth that would have shamed a man-eating shark, at the huge locomotive headlights that served for its various sets of eyes, at the horns made of barber poles, and the moustache of twisted hogshead hoops. Behind this baleful creature came other smaller ones, and more flags, and litters with sacrificial offerings, and more musicians, till all disappeared in the distance, and the crowd surged in ...
— Marm Lisa • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... winced, and then with hilarious shouts dropped to the floor and went clattering away. Returning, they played hide and seek in and out of the old worn boots and shoes which littered the floor. Then the tub wherein the shoemaker wet his leather, burst its hoops and the water ran out over the floor in streams of fire. The light was out and darkness enveloped Nick and his companion. The wind went howling by, and flung gusts of hail against the cracked and broken windows. Baba, shivering ...
— Nick Baba's Last Drink and Other Sketches • George P. Goff
... batches Of political despatches, And foreign politicians circumvent; Then, if business isn't heavy, We may hold a Royal LEVEE, Or ratify some Acts of Parliament: Then we probably review the household troops - With the usual "Shalloo humps" and "Shalloo hoops!" Or receive with ceremonial and state An interesting Eastern Potentate. After that we generally Go and ...
— Songs of a Savoyard • W. S. Gilbert


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