Definition of Hoop

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Definition of Hoop

Hoop

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.

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

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.

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.

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

To clasp; to encircle; to surround.

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

To whoop, as in whooping cough. See Whoop.

To drive or follow with a shout.

To call by a shout or peculiar cry.

A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.

The hoopoe. See Hoopoe.

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Hoop Quotations

I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.
Les Brown

And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.
Black Elk

So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation's hoop I thrust it in the earth.
Black Elk

I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
Barbara Bush

You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop.
Derek Jacobi

Shields were generally made of wood, covered with leather, or some similar substance. To secure them, in some sort, from being cut through by the sword, they were surrounded with a hoop of metal.
Thomas Bulfinch

She's not happy about the life she is living but to jump through the hoop would mean to succumb to death.
Kit Williams

The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control.
Kit Williams

The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery.
Kit Williams

Hoop Translations

hoop in German is Reifen
hoop in Spanish is aro
hoop in Swedish is tunn-, rullband, tunnband

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