hooping

Verb (1)

hoop (third-person singular simple present hoops, present participle hooping, simple past and past participle hooped)

1. (transitive) To bind or fasten using a hoop.
   • to hoop a barrel or puncheon
2. (transitive) To clasp; to encircle; to surround.
   • [B]ehold the wretched price of Wales, / Hoopt with a bond of yron round about, […]1596, [attributed to William Shakespeare; Thomas Kyd], The Raigne of King Edward the Third: […], London: […] [T. Scarlet] for Cuthbert Burby, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]
3. (intransitive, slang) To play basketball.
   • Instead of hooping, they now played tennis, golf, or both.2019, Charley Rosen, Trouthe, Lies, and Basketball

Verb (2)

hoop (third-person singular simple present hoops, present participle hooping, simple past and past participle hooped)

1. (dated) To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout.
2. (dated) To whoop, as in whooping cough.

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