What is the meaning of HOOPS. Phrases containing HOOPS
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a circular plank table used in shaping cask hoops
the game of basketball
basketball. "Hey man let's go shoot some hoops."Â
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A barrel-shaped vessel made of staves headings, and hoops, usually fitted together so as to hold liquids. It may be larger or smaller than a barrel.
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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.
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A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads.
v. t.
To strip or deprive of hoops; to take away the hoops of.
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One who hoops casks or tubs; a cooper.
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A long bag net distended by hoops, into which fish can pass easily, without being able to return; -- called also fyke net.
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A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask.
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Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber.
v. i.
A ball which has passed through all the hoops and would go out if it hit the stake but is continued in play; also, the player of such a ball.
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An open wooden vessel formed with staves, bottom, and hoops; a kind of short cask, half barrel, or firkin, usually with but one head, -- used for various purposes.
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An open-air game in which two or more players endeavor to drive wooden balls, by means of mallets, through a series of hoops or arches set in the ground according to some pattern.
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A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub.
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To bind or fasten with hoops; as, to hoop a barrel or puncheon.
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A play designed to promote or display grace of motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of each. Called also grace hoop or hoops.
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