HOOPED

Adjective

hooped (comparative more hooped, superlative most hooped)

Containing hoops

(western Canada, slang) beset with unfortunate circumstances that seem difficult or impossible to overcome; screwed.

Synonyms

• (beset): screwed, fucked; see also in trouble

Verb

hooped

simple past tense and past participle of hoop

Anagrams

• poohed

Source: Wiktionary


HOOP

Hoop, n. Etym: [OE. hope; akin to D. hoep, hoepel.]

1. 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.

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

3. 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. Though stiff with hoops, and armed with ribs of whale. Pope.

4. 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. [Obs.]

5. An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks. [Eng.] Halliwell. Bulge hoop, Chine hoop, Quarter hoop, the hoop nearest the middle of a cask, that nearest the end, and the intermediate hoop between these two, respectively.

– Flat hoop, a wooden hoop dressed flat on both sides.

– Half-round hoop, a wooden hoop left rounding and undressed on the outside.

– Hoop iron, iron in thin narrow strips, used for making hoops.

– Hoop lock, the fastening for uniting the ends of wooden hoops by notching and interlocking them.

– Hoop skirt, a framework of hoops for expanding the skirts of a woman's dress; -- called also hoop petticoat.

– Hoop snake (Zoöl.), a harmless snake of the Southern United States (Abaster erythrogrammus); -- so called from the mistaken notion that it curves itself into a hoop, taking its tail into its mouth, and rolls along with great velocity.

– Hoop tree (Bot.), a small West Indian tree (Melia sempervirens), of the Mahogany family.

Hoop, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hooped; p. pr. & vb. n. Hooping.]

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

2. To clasp; to encircle; to surround. Shak.

Hoop, v. i. Etym: [OE. houpen; cf. F. houper to hoop, to shout; -- a hunting term, prob. fr. houp, an interj. used in calling. Cf. Whoop.]

1. To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout. [Usually written whoop.]

2. To whoop, as in whooping cough. See Whoop. Hooping cough. (Med.) See Whooping cough.

Hoop, v. t. Etym: [Written also whoop.]

1. To drive or follow with a shout. "To be hooped out of Rome." Shak.

2. To call by a shout or peculiar cry.

Hoop, n.

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

2. (Zoöl.)

Definition: The hoopoe. See Hoopoe.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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