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UK
/hˈuːps/
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[ US /ˈhups/ ]
[ US /ˈhups/ ]
NOUN
- a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop
How To Use hoops In A Sentence
- I ` d like to see it minus bodywork to see if it ` s got smaller wheels than the big old hoops normal for the period, cos i reckon even tho the bodywork is quite wide, full lock would find large dia. wheels causing a few problems. 1930 Art Deco Henderson
- When the Mexican chair of the meeting declared the talks formally closed there were whoops of delight from the African delegates.
- Hula hoops and pet rocks were fads; personal computers and cellular telephones are trends that are changing the way people live.
- To anchor his hoops to the ground, he drills through the rails at about a 30-degree outward angle.
- She could feel underclothes, linen drawers, silken chemise, a farthingale with its stiffened hoops. Ill Met By Moonlight
- This is particularly true of the film's climax, which somehow manages to demolish several cop cars, and find Ellen clutching a parasail and jumping through flaming hoops in water skis, yet still be completely unfunny.
- Then we played some games: we threw bean bags into targets for prizes and ran relays, spun hula hoops and played tic-tac-toe, fulfilling the mitzvah of laughing and being merry on Sukkot. GLBT Families Come OUT to Decorate the Sukkah With GLOE « The Blog at 16th and Q
- Jan 24 2008 Whoops, Eyak isn't quite an Athabaskan language but rather a coordinate subbranch of the Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit family, according to the Alaska Native Language Center. Archive 2008-01-01
- All that was left was a heap of metal hoops from the casks.
- We used to have freedom and play in the fields with traditional toys such as hoops, a top and whip and marbles.