hoop

hoop is a 4-letter English word with 18 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 9 · 18 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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. noun. A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop, as the cylinder (cheese hoop) in which the curd is pressed in making cheese.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. 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.
5. noun. An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.
6. transitive verb. To bind or fasten with hoops; as, to hoop a barrel or puncheon.
7. transitive verb. To clasp; to encircle; to surround.
8. intransitive verb. To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout.
9. intransitive verb. To whoop, as in whooping cough. See Whoop.
10. transitive verb. To drive or follow with a shout.
11. transitive verb. To call by a shout or peculiar cry.
12. noun. A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.
13. noun. The hoopoe. See Hoopoe.
14. noun. horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball

    Synonyms: basket

15. noun. a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling

    "there was still a rusty iron hoop for tying a horse"

    Synonyms: ring

16. noun. a light curved skeleton to spread out a skirt
17. noun. a small arch used as croquet equipment

    Synonyms: wicket

18. verb. bind or fasten with a hoop

    "hoop vats"

Synonyms

basket, ring, wicket

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in hoop:

phoo, pooh

Common word forms

hoops, hooped, hooper, hooping, hoopless

Words from these letters

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