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Hoop vs Coop - What's the difference?

hoop | coop |

As nouns the difference between hoop and coop

is that hoop is (soccer) someone connected with , as a fan, player, coach etc while coop is a pen or enclosure for birds or coop can be .

As a verb coop is

to keep in a coop.

hoop

English

(wikipedia hoop)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) hoop, hoope, from (etyl) ). More at (l).

Noun

(en noun)
  • A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.
  • A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop.
    • the cheese hoop , or cylinder in which the curd is pressed in making cheese
  • (mostly, in plural) A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; crinoline.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • stiff with hoops , and armed with ribs of whale
  • 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.
  • (UK, obsolete) An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.
    • (Halliwell)
  • (plural) The game of basketball.
  • A hoop earring.
  • (Australia, metonym, informal, dated) A jockey; from a common pattern on the blouse''.“ hoop”, entry in 1989 , Joan Hughes, ''Australian Words and Their Origins , page 261.
    • Derived terms
    * hula hoop * jump through hoops

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To bind or fasten using a hoop.
    • to hoop a barrel or puncheon
  • To clasp; to encircle; to surround.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.
  • The hoopoe.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (dated) To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout.
  • (dated) To whoop, as in whooping cough.
    • Derived terms
    * hooping cough (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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    coop

    English

    (wikipedia coop)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A pen or enclosure for birds.
  • (slang) jail
  • A barrel or cask for liquor.
    • (Johnson)
  • (Scotland) A cart from boards; a tumbrel.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To keep in a coop.
  • To shut up or confine in a narrow space; to cramp.
  • * Dryden
    • The Trojans cooped within their walls so long.
  • * John Locke
    • The contempt of all other knowledge coops the understanding up within narrow bounds.
  • (obsolete) To work upon in the manner of a cooper.
  • * Holland
    • Shaken tubs be new cooped .
    Derived terms
    * coop up

    Etymology 2

    From , by shortening.

    Noun

    (en noun)
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