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Definitions

hoop

[hoop, hoop] / hup, hʊp /
NOUN
ring
Synonyms


NOUN
basketball goal
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG


Example Sentences

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But now I bet you want to see Bronny come into the game to hoop.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2026

He likes to golf, he likes to hoop — sometimes in that specific order — and he likes his family.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2026

Brothers Joseph and Lyman Bloomingdale got their start in 1872 selling hoop skirts, corsets and other women’s fashions on New York’s Lower East Side.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

Indiana leapt through every hoop, every ranking, every road game, every skeptical Yeah but have they done this.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026

After discarding the hoop, she places a small box in the center of the platform.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern