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▸ 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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free throw,
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shot put,
hammer throw,
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