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Definition of Hoops
1. 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.
Terms within: Basketball Shot, Rebound, Tap-off, Tip-off, Basketball Play, Half
Examples of category: Jump Shot, Jumper, Jump Ball, Fast Break, Dribble, Dribbling, Double Dribble, Assist, Technical, Technical Foul, Backboard, Basketball Backboard, Basketball Court, Basketball Equipment, Home Court, Rim, Key, Paint, Center, Hack, Dunk, Slam-dunk, Ball-hawking
Generic synonyms: Court Game
Specialized synonyms: Professional Basketball
Definition of Hoops
1. Noun. (US slang in the plural) basketball ¹
2. Noun. (plural of hoop) ¹
3. Verb. (third-person singular of hoop) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hoops
1. hoop [v] - See also: hoop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hoops
Literary usage of Hoops
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Education by Henry Barnard (1862)
"It is well to fasten the staples and pulleys into slides, that the altitude of
the hoops may be altered, for persons of different ages. > Fig. ..."
2. Forest Products, Their Manufacture and Use: Embracing the Principal by Nelson Courtlandt Brown (1919)
"There are two methods of manufacturing coiled hoops and although certain variations
in the two processes may be found in different parts of the country, ..."
3. Forest Products, Their Manufacture and Use: Embracing the Principal by Nelson Courtlandt Brown (1919)
"There are two methods of manufacturing coiled hoops and although certain variations
in the two processes may be found in different parts of the country, ..."
4. Manual by American Railway Engineering Association (1921)
"hoops to be round in cross-section the same size throughout and shall be bent to
... Spacing of hoops to be figured by the following formula: Safe load for ..."
5. Nature by Nature Publishing Group, Norman Lockyer (1883)
"The first, clf shows the strains, if the hoops are put in with no initial strain,
... Thus it is seen that by a multiplication of hoops with initial strains ..."
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