Meaning

4 senses

  1. The European whistling, or wild, swan (Cygnus cygnus).

  2. One who applies hoops to casks or tubs.

    Fassbinder, Böttcher, Scheffler

  3. One who hula hoops.

  4. (informal)A basketball player.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. Tom is a hooper.

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Translations

1 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
One who applies hoop:

Origin

From Middle English hoper, hoopere, hopere, perhaps from Old English *hōpere (“hooper”),

From Middle English hoper, hoopere, hopere, perhaps from Old English *hōpere (“hooper”), equivalent to hoop + -er.

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Forms

plural: hoopers
Singularhooper
Pluralhoopers

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
swan:elkewhooper swanwhooping swanhooper swan

Word family

1 related words
Relatedhula hooper

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
hooliganhoophoorayhoot
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