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

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

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

n. A circular, ringlike earring.

n. One of a pair of circular wooden or metal frames used to hold material taut for embroidery or similar needlework.

n. Basketball The basket.

n. Basketball A field goal: hit a big hoop.

n. Basketball The game of basketball.

n. Sports A croquet wicket.

v. To hold together or support with or as if with a hoop.

v. To encircle.

idiom. jump To undergo a rigorous trial or examination.

n. A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.

n. The hoopoe.

n. A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.

n. The game of basketball.

n. A hoop earring.

v. To fasten using a hoop.

n. A pliant strip of wood or metal bent in a circular form, and united at the ends, for holding together the staves of casks, tubs, etc.

n. A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop, as the cylinder (cheese hoop) in which the curd is pressed in making cheese.

n. A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; crinoline; -- used chiefly in the plural.

n. 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.

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

v. To bind or fasten with hoops.

v. To clasp; to encircle; to surround.

verb-intransitive. To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout.

verb-intransitive. To whoop, as in whooping cough. See Whoop.

v. To drive or follow with a shout.

v. To call by a shout or peculiar cry.

n. A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.

n. The hoopoe. See Hoopoe.

n. 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.

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

n. 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.

n. Something resembling a hoop; anything circular: technically applied in botany to the overlapping edge of one of the valves of the frustule of the Diatomaceæ.

n. A certain quantity of drink, up to the first hoop on a quart pot (which was formerly bound with hoops like a barrel).

n. An old English measure of capacity, variously estimated at from 1 to 4 pecks.

n. The casing inclosing a pair of millstones; also, a reinforcing band about one of the stones.

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.

n. Same as whoop.

n. Same as hoopoe.

n. A bullfinch.

n. horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball

n. a light curved skeleton to spread out a skirt

n. a small arch used as croquet equipment

v. bind or fasten with a hoop

n. a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling

"Katie Hester has high hoops in Bend, Oregon, so high the hoop is actually behind her in this beautiful shot taken by her sister."

hooped    hooping    hoops   

basketball equipment    goal    croquet equipment    encircle    gird   

to set the cock on hoop    provisory hoop   

whoop    hoopoe   

hula hoop    jump through hoops   

ring    crinoline    clasp    encircle    surround    shout    bind   

Guadeloupe    Loop    Shoop    coop    coupe    croup    doupe    droop    drupe    dupe   

earring    buckle    bracelet    rod    collar    disc    circlet    stud    bead    cylinder