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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



... beads, And Blues of telling stories; And titled suitors shall be crossed, And famished poets married, And Canning's motion shall be lost, And Hume's amendment carried; And Chancery shall cease to doubt, And Algebra to prove, And hoops come in, and gas go out Before I ...
— Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 • George Saintsbury
... That of William Thynne represents him in full armour with a tremendous dudgeon dagger and broadsword, most warlike guize for a clerk of the kitchen and editor of Chaucer. The dress of his wife is quite refreshing in its graceful comeliness in these days of revived "farthingales and hoops." These brasses were restored by the late Marquess of Bath. Would that the same good feeling for things old had prevented the owners of the "church property" from casing the old tower with a ...
— Animaduersions uppon the annotacions and corrections of some imperfections of impressiones of Chaucer's workes - 1865 edition • Francis Thynne
... tops, and hoops, They fashioned bowls and chairs, They sold a thousand million scoops, And seven hundred stairs; And this Bob—declares! ...
— Sugar and Spice • James Johnson
... geese instead of shooting them, and he and Albert at once set about the task of making the trap. This idea was not original with Dick. As so many others have been, he was, in part, and unconscious imitator. He planted in the shallow water a series of hoops, graded in height, the largest being in the deepest water, while they diminished steadily in size as they came nearer to the land. They made the hoops of split saplings, and planted them ...
— The Last of the Chiefs - A Story of the Great Sioux War • Joseph Altsheler
... rump of a big gray horse which galloped around a saw-dust ring with the regularity of movement that suggested a machine, while a sober-clothed man in the center cracked a whip and yelped commands. Andy had jumped through blazing hoops and over sagging bunting while he rode—and he was just a trifle ashamed of the fact. Also—though it does not particularly matter—he had, later in the performance, gone hurtling around the big tent dressed in the garb of an ancient ...
— The Happy Family • Bertha Muzzy Bower


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