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say it: huud
hood is a noun and verb meaning "an aggressive and violent young criminal". It carries 11 recorded senses.
a tubular attachment used to keep stray light out of the lens of a camera
metal covering leading to a vent that exhausts smoke or fumes
protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine
“there are powerful engines under the hoods of new cars”
“the mechanic removed the cowling in order to repair the plane's engine”
(zoology) an expandable part or marking that resembles a hood on the head or neck of an animal
zoology
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hood come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.