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hoopies

hoopies is the plural of hoopy.

hoopies is the plural of hoopie.

Meaning of hoopy

Noun

hoopy (plural hoopies)

  1. (Appalachia, Pennsylvania, derogatory) A person perceived as lower class or an unskilled laborer.
    • That hoopy hardly speaks English.

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Meaning of hoopie

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

Questions about hoopies

What is hoopies the plural of?
Hoopies is the plural of hoopy.

Words near hoopies in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hoopies (page history and authors); hoopy (page history and authors); hoopie (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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