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go through hoops

go through hoops is the alternative form of jump through hoops.

Meaning of jump through hoops

Verb

jump through hoops (third-person singular simple present jumps through hoops, present participle jumping through hoops, simple past and past participle jumped through hoops)

  1. (idiomatic) To put forth great effort to meet requirements, usually arbitrary, set by someone.
    • They really made the salesman jump through hoops before buying anything.

Forms of go through hoops

third-person singular presentgoes through hoops
present participlegoing through hoops
pastwent through hoops
past participlegone through hoops

Questions about go through hoops

What is go through hoops the alternative form of?
Go through hoops is the alternative form of jump through hoops.

Words near go through hoops in the dictionary

  1. go there
  2. go through
  3. go through fire and water
  4. go through great lengths
  5. go through hell
  6. go through hoops
  7. go through the attitudes
  8. go through the gears
  9. go through the mill
  10. go through the motions
  11. go through the trouble

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Adapted from Wiktionary: go through hoops (page history and authors); jump through hoops (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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