basketball, basketball game, hoops
(noun) 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
Source: WordNet® 3.1
hoops
(US, in the plural) basketball
plural of hoop
hoops
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hoop
• Shoop, hospo, poohs, posho, shoop
Hoops
plural of Hoop
• Shoop, hospo, poohs, posho, shoop
Source: Wiktionary
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
9 May 2025
(noun) anything in accord with principles of justice; “he feels he is in the right”; “the rightfulness of his claim”
Contrary to popular belief, coffee beans are not technically beans. They are referred to as such because of their resemblance to legumes. A coffee bean is a seed of the Coffea plant and the source for coffee. It is the pit inside the red or purple fruit, often referred to as a cherry. Just like ordinary cherries, the coffee fruit is also a so-called stone fruit.
