These are the meanings of the letters HPPOO when you unscramble them.
- Hoop (n.)
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.
- Hoop (n.)
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.
- Hoop (n.)
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.
- Hoop (n.)
A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop, as the cylinder (cheese hoop) in which the curd is pressed in making cheese.
- Hoop (n.)
A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.
- Hoop (n.)
An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.
- Hoop (n.)
The hoopoe. See Hoopoe.
- Hoop (v. i.)
To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout.
- Hoop (v. i.)
To whoop, as in whooping cough. See Whoop.
- Hoop (v. t.)
To bind or fasten with hoops; as, to hoop a barrel or puncheon.
- Hoop (v. t.)
To call by a shout or peculiar cry.
- Hoop (v. t.)
To clasp; to encircle; to surround.
- Hoop (v. t.)
To drive or follow with a shout.
- Pooh (interj.)
Pshaw! pish! nonsense! -- an expression of scorn, dislike, or contempt.
- Poop (n.)
A deck raised above the after part of a vessel; the hindmost or after part of a vessel's hull; also, a cabin covered by such a deck. See Poop deck, under Deck. See also Roundhouse.
- Poop (n.)
See 2d Poppy.
- Poop (v. i.)
To make a noise; to pop; also, to break wind.
- Poop (v. t.)
To break over the poop or stern, as a wave.
- Poop (v. t.)
To strike in the stern, as by collision.