| Hoop | |
| 1. subst. (soccer) someone connected with Queens Park Rangers Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc. | |
| 2. subst. A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel. | |
| 3. subst. A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop. | |
| the cheese hoop, or cylinder in which the curd is pressed in making cheese | |
| 4. subst. A circular band of metal, wood, or similar material used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent. | |
| 5. subst. (mostly, in plural) A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; crinoline. | |
| 6. subst. 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. | |
| 7. subst. (obsolete) An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks. | |
| 8. subst. (US, in plural) The game of basketball. | |
| 9. subst. A hoop earring. | |
| 10. subst. (Australia, metonym, informal, dated) A jockey; from a common pattern on the blouse.“”, entry in 1989, Joan Hughes, Australian Words and Their Origins, page 261. | |
| 11. subst. (sport) (usually plural) A horizontal stripe on the jersey | |
| 12. subst. (usually plural) A requirement that must be met in order to proceed. | |
| 13. v. To bind or fasten using a hoop. | |
| to hoop a barrel or puncheon | |
| 14. v. To clasp; to encircle; to surround. | |
| 15. subst. A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough. | |
| 16. subst. The hoopoe. | |
| 17. v. (dated) To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout. | |
| 18. v. (dated) To whoop, as in whooping cough. | |
