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hoop noun1. [hu:p]
[Late Old English hop = Old Frisian hop, Middle Dutch hoop (Dutch hoep) from West Germanic, rel. to Old Norse hop small land-locked bay.]
I.
A measure for grain, salt, etc. obsolete exc. Hist. LOE.
A circular band or ring of metal, wood, etc., esp. for binding together the staves of casks, barrels, tubs, etc. ME.
fig.: Shakespeare Hamlet Those friends thou hast,..Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.
Each of the bands on a quart pot; the amount of liquor contained between two of these. L16-E17.
II.
Anything having a structure or appearance that resembles a hoop; a circle, a ring, an arc. LME.
A finger-ring; a circular earring. E16.
Each of a set of circles of flexible material used to spread out a skirt; a hoop petticoat or skirt. M16.
A circle of wood, plastic, or metal rolled along as a toy or used in various exercises, esp. by children. M17.
H. Allen He began to drive his hoop..in skilful narrowing circles about the man.
A metal ring for holding cake mixture during baking. M18.
A circular wooden frame in which a cheese is moulded. L18.
A ring, often with paper stretched over it, through which acrobats or performing animals leap. L18.
be put through the hoop(s), go through the hoop(s), jump through the hoop(s) undergo an ordeal.
A band in contrasting colour on a jockey's blouse, sleeves, or cap; Austral. a jockey. L19.
(The round metal frame of) the basket used in basketball. L19.
Each of the arches through which the ball must be driven in croquet. L19.
Comb.: hoop-back (a chair with) a hooped back; hoop-iron: in long thin strips for binding casks etc.; hoop petticoat (a) a petticoat spread out by hoops; (b) (in full hoop-petticoat narcissus, hoop-petticoat daffodil) a kind of narcissus, Narcissus bulbocodium, with long tubular corona and narrow reversed perianth segments; hoop pine an eastern Australian conifer, Araucaria cunninghamii, yielding a valuable timber; hoop ring a finger-ring; hoop skirt: spread out by hoops; hoop-snake an American snake popularly believed to roll like a hoop, usu. identified with the mud snake Farancia abacura.