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hoopie

hoopie noun: an old, worn-out car.

Noun

hoopie (plural hoopies)

  1. (US, dated, dialectal) An old, worn-out car.
    • Fact is, he worked more on our car than we did on the farm; and before the week was up, that old hoopie of ours was in the finest state of repair it'd ever been — by a damn sight, too, I mean.1956 September, Dillon Anderson, “The Meanest Man in Washington County”, in The Atlantic Monthly, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Jan 2025

Synonyms of hoopie

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Forms of hoopie

pluralhoopies
alternative formhoopy

Origin of hoopie

Unknown.

Questions about hoopie

What does hoopie mean?
Hoopie means an old, worn-out car.
What part of speech is hoopie?
Hoopie is a noun.
What is the plural of hoopie?
The plural of hoopie is hoopies.

Words near hoopie in the dictionary

  1. hooperon
  2. hooperons
  3. hoopers
  4. Hoopes
  5. Hoopeses
  6. hoopie
  7. hoopies
  8. hooping
  9. hooping cough
  10. hooping coughs
  11. hooping-cough

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