1. A circular band of metal or wood put around a cask or barrel to bind the staves together.
2. A large wooden, plastic, or metal ring, especially one used as a plaything or for trained animals to jump through.
3. one of the lightweight circular supports for a hoop skirt.
4. A circular, ringlike earring.
5. one of a pair of circular wooden or metal frames used to hold material taut for embroidery or similar needlework.
6. basketball the basket.
7. basketball A field goal: hit a big hoop.
8. basketball the game of basketball.
9. sports A croquet wicket.
10. to hold together or support with or as if with a hoop.
11. to encircle.
12. jump to undergo a rigorous trial or examination.

1. A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.
2. the game of basketball.
3. A hoop earring.
4. to fasten using a hoop.
5. A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.
6. the hoopoe.

1. A pliant strip of wood or metal bent in a circular form, and united at the ends, for holding together the staves of casks, tubs, etc.
2. A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop, as the cylinder (cheese hoop) in which the curd is pressed in making cheese.
3. A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; crinoline; -- used chiefly in the plural.
4. 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.
5. an old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.
6. A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.
7. the hoopoe. see hoopoe.
8. to utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout.
9. to whoop, as in whooping cough. see whoop.
10. to bind or fasten with hoops.
11. to clasp; to encircle; to surround.
12. to drive or follow with a shout.
13. to call by a shout or peculiar cry.

1. to bind or fasten with a hoop or with hoops; provide with a hoop: as, to hoop a barrel or puncheon.
2. to clasp; encircle; surround.
3. A circular band or flattened ring of wood, metal, or other material; especially, a band of wood or metal used to confine the staves of casks, tubs, etc., or for any similar purpose; also, that part of a finger-ring which surrounds the finger, as distinguished from the chaton.
4. A large ring of wood or iron for a child to trundle.
5. A circular band of stiff material serving to expand the skirt of a woman's dress: often used, either in the singular or in the plural, for the skirt itself so expanded.
6. something resembling a hoop; anything circular: technically applied in botany to the overlapping edge of one of the valves of the frustule of the Diatomaceæ.
7. A certain quantity of drink, up to the first hoop on a quart pot (which was formerly bound with hoops like a barrel).
8. an old english measure of capacity, variously estimated at from 1 to 4 pecks.
9. the casing inclosing a pair of millstones; also, a reinforcing band about one of the stones.
10. same as whoop.
11. same as hoopoe.
12. A bullfinch.

1. horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball
2. a light curved skeleton to spread out a skirt
3. a small arch used as croquet equipment
4. bind or fasten with a hoop
5. a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling