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What does hoop mean?

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Noun
  1. A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.
  2. A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop.
  3. (plural) A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; crinoline.
  4. A quart pot; so called because originally bound with hoops, like a barrel. Also, a portion of the contents measured by the distance between the hoops.
  5. (Britain, obsolete) An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.
  6. (plural) The game of basketball.
  7. A hoop earring.
  8. (metonymy) A jockey; from a common pattern on the blouse.
  9. (usually, plural) (sports) A horizontal stripe on the jersey
Verb
  1. (transitive) To bind or fasten using a hoop.
  2. (transitive) To clasp; to encircle; to surround.
Noun
  1. A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.
  2. The hoopoe.
Verb
  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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