Meaning

5 senses

  1. (transitive)To bind or fasten using a hoop.

    to hoop a barrel or puncheon

    bind or fasten with a hoop

  2. (transitive)To clasp; to encircle; to surround.

  3. (intransitive, slang)To play basketball.

  4. (dated)To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout.

  5. (dated)To whoop, as in whooping cough.

Examples

24 sentences

  1. Let's go to the gym and shoot some hoops.

    deLass uns zur Turnhalle gehen und ein paar Körbe werfen! — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  2. There were a lot of hoops we had to jump through.

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  3. I'd jump through hoops for you.

    deFür dich würde ich durch einen Reifen springen. — samueldora

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  4. We used to shoot hoops together.

    ruМы когда-то играли в баскетбол вместе. — sharptoothed

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  5. Tom trained his dog to jump through hoops.

    deTom hat seinem Hund beigebracht, durch Reifen zu springen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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Origin

From Middle English hoop, hoope, from Old English hōp (“mound, raised land; in combination

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.

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Forms

hoops, hooping, hooped, hooped
Base formhoop · to hoop
3rd person singularhoops
Present participlehooping
Past simplehooped
Past participlehooped

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyhoop
he, she, ithoops

Past simpleLesson

all personshooped

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave hooped
he, she, ithas hooped

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill hoop

Word family

3 related words
Derivedrehoophooping coughhooper

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
hookyhooliganhoorayhoot

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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