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hoop

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"Circular band or ring"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /huːp/Part of speech verb, nounSorted hoopStarts with HEnds with P2 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. bind or fasten with a hoop

Word origin

From Middle English hoop, hoope, from Old English hōp (“mound, raised land; in combination, circular object”), from Proto-Germanic *hōpą (“bend, bow, arch”) (compare Saterland Frisian Houp (“hoop”), Dutch hoep (“hoop”), Old Norse hóp (“bay, inlet”)), from Proto-Indo-European *kāb- (“to bend”) (compare Lithuanian kabė (“hook”), Old Church Slavonic кѫпъ (kǫpŭ, “hill, island”)). More at camp.

Used in a sentence

  • “the cheese hoop, or cylinder in which the curd is pressed in making cheese”
  • “gymnastic hoop”
  • “a hoop between trees”

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01“Circular band or ring”4 letters
02“Basketball rim”4 letters

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