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hoopty

hoopty is the alternative spelling of hooptie.

Meaning of hooptie

Noun

hooptie (plural hoopties)

  1. (slang, African-American) An old car that has been remodeled or reformed in some way, shape, or form; a classic, a banger.
    • “How many of you guys got a hooptee, raise your hand?”2007 October 24, Corey Kilgannon, “A High School Under the Hood”, in New York Times

Forms of hoopty

pluralhoopties
alternative formhooptie
alternative formhoopdi
alternative formhooptee

Questions about hoopty

What is hoopty the alternative spelling of?
Hoopty is the alternative spelling of hooptie.

Words near hoopty in the dictionary

  1. hoopsticks
  2. hooptee
  3. hooptees
  4. hooptie
  5. hoopties
  6. hoopty
  7. hoopy
  8. hoorah
  9. hoorah's nest
  10. hoorahed
  11. hoorahing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hoopty (page history and authors); hooptie (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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