hoop

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Related topics: Toys, Daily life

hoop /huːp $ hʊp, huːp/ noun [countableC] → whoop

1. a large ring made of wood, metal, plastic etc 〔木质、金属或塑料等的〕环，箍

2. DHTa large ring that children used to play with in the past, or that circus animals are made to jump through 〔旧时儿童当玩具的〕环；〔马戏团中供动物钻过的〕大圈

a) the ring that you have to throw the ball through to score points in basketball 〔篮球中的〕篮圈

b) hoops [plural] American EnglishAmE informal the game of basketball 篮球运动

4. jump/go through hoops IMPRESSif someone makes you jump through hoops, they make you do lots of difficult or boring things before you are allowed to do what you want to do 经受考验[磨炼]，克服许多困难

Examples from the Corpus

jump/go through hoops• He had me roll my body across the yard, he had me hop, he had me jump through hoops.• We had to jump through a lot of hoops in order to get the play on stage.

5. (also hoop earrings)D an earring that is shaped like a ring 圈状耳环

→ cock-a-hoop , hula hoop

Examples from the Corpus

hoop• They chant their tables before playtime with tops, skipping ropes and hoops.• If they win, it will be due to the chemistry whipped up in nine months of globe-trotting, boot-camp hoops.• Bradley, a Hall of Fame pro basketball player, first gained prominence as a college hoops star at Princeton.• an embroidery hoop• Small gold hoop earrings caught the light as she turned her head.• The sleepy snakes lie wreathed around themselves or slither through the hoops of their own skin, their hanks of hemp.• He had me roll my body across the yard, he had me hop, he had me jump through hoops.• The wooden hoop supporting the foliage had almost collapsed beneath its weight.

Origin hoop

Old English hop

hoop noun

Chinese

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