Usually means: Circular band used in sports.
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  1. hoop: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hoop: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hoop: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hoop: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hoop: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hoop, hoop: Wordnik
  7. hoop: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Hoop, hoop: Wiktionary
  9. hoop: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hoop: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hoop: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Hoop, hoop: Dictionary.com
  13. hoop: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hoop: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Hoop (magazine), Hoop (rhythmic gymnastics), Hoop (surname), Hoop: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Hoop: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. hoop: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. hoop: Rhymezone
  19. hoop, hoop (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. hoop: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. hoop: Free Dictionary
  22. hoop: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. hoop: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. hoop: Encyclopedia

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Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. HOOP: Acronym Finder
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  3. hoop: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hoop, hoop, hoop, hoop, hoop, hoop: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. hoop: Urban Dictionary

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hoop: Croquet
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)
  4. Hoop: Sports Definitions

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  1. Embroidery Glossary (No longer online)
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  4. Hoop: Latitude Mexico

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noun:  A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.
noun:  Any circular band or ring.
noun:  A circular band of metal, wood, or similar material used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.
noun:  (now chiefly historical) A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; (hence, by extension) a hoop petticoat or hoop skirt.
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.
noun:  (UK, obsolete) An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.
noun:  (basketball) The rim part of a basketball net.
noun:  (US, in the plural, metonymically) The game of basketball.
noun:  A hoop earring.
noun:  (sports, usually in the plural) A horizontal stripe on the jersey.
noun:  (Australia, metonymically, slang, by extension) A jockey.
noun:  (figurative, usually in the plural) An obstacle that must be overcome in order to proceed.
noun:  (uncountable) Hooping (manipulation of and artistic movement or dancing with a hoop).
verb:  (transitive) To bind or fasten using a hoop.
verb:  (transitive) To clasp; to encircle; to surround.
verb:  (intransitive, slang) To play basketball.
noun:  A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.
noun:  (archaic) The hoopoe.
verb:  (dated) To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout.
verb:  (dated) To whoop, as in whooping cough.
noun:  (soccer) someone connected with Queens Park Rangers Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.

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