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say it: hoop
hoop is a noun and verb meaning "a light curved skeleton to spread out a skirt". It is pronounced /ˈhup/ — hoop. It carries 5 recorded senses.
a light curved skeleton to spread out a skirt
a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling
“there was still a rusty iron hoop for tying a horse”
a small arch used as croquet equipment
horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball
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 hoop 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.