plural of hoop

(US) basketball

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hoop

plural of Hoop

A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel. / A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop.

(transitive) To bind or fasten using a hoop. / (transitive) To clasp; to encircle; to surround.

A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough. / The hoopoe.

(dated) To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout. / (dated) To whoop, as in whooping cough.

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

simple past tense and past participle of hoop