hoop : Idioms & Phrases

• noun horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball
  basket; hoop.
  

WordNet

• the hoop nearest the middle of a cask, that nearest the end, and the intermediate hoop between these two, respectively.

Webster 1913

• adjective satellite exhibiting self-importance
  crowing; braggart; big; boastful; bragging; self-aggrandizing; braggy; self-aggrandising.
  
  • big talk

WordNet

Cock`-a-hoop" adjective

Definitions

1. Boastful; defiant; exulting. Also used adverbially.

Webster 1913

• noun a frame made of two hoops; used for embroidering
  tambour; embroidery frame.
  

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• a wooden hoop dressed flat on both sides.

Webster 1913

• a hoop used by coopers to draw together the ends of barrel staves, to allow the hoops to be slipped over them.

Webster 1913

• a hoop used in playing graces. See Grace, n., 13.

Webster 1913

• a wooden hoop left rounding and undressed on the outside.

Webster 1913

• noun vigorous spreading North American tree having dark brown heavy wood; leaves turn gold in autumn
  brown ash; basket ash; Fraxinus nigra; black ash.
  

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• iron in thin narrow strips, used for making hoops.

Webster 1913

• the fastening for uniting the ends of wooden hoops by notching and interlocking them.

Webster 1913

• noun pine of Australia and New Guinea; yields a valuable light even-textured wood
  Moreton Bay pine; Araucaria cunninghamii.
  

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• a framework of hoops for expanding the skirts of a woman's dress; called also hoop petticoat.

Webster 1913

• noun any of various harmless North American snakes that were formerly believed to take tail in mouth and roll along like a hoop
  

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• (Zoöl.), a harmless snake of the Southern United States (Abaster erythrogrammus); so called from the mistaken notion that it curves itself into a hoop, taking its tail into its mouth, and rolls along with great velocity.

Webster 1913

• (Bot.), a small West Indian tree (Melia sempervirens), of the Mahogany family.

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• . (Med.) See Whooping cough.

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• noun plaything consisting of a tubular plastic hoop for swinging around the hips
  

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• one of a number of hoops attached to the fore edge of a boom sail, which slip on the mast as the sail is raised or lowered; also, one of the iron hoops used in making a made mast. See Made.

Webster 1913