Hooping vs Cooping - What's the difference?
hooping | cooping |
The practice of forcing unwilling participants to vote, often several times over, for a particular candidate in an election.
* 1907 , William Page, The Victoria history of the county of Suffolk, Volume 2
* 1977 , Aubrey C. Land, Lois Green Carr, Edward C. Papenfuse, Morris Leon Radoff, Law, society, and politics in early Maryland
* 2001 , Paul Knepper, Explaining criminal conduct: theories and systems in criminology
As verbs the difference between hooping and cooping
is that hooping is while cooping is .As a noun cooping is
the practice of forcing unwilling participants to vote, often several times over, for a particular candidate in an election.cooping
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(-)- The restriction (1835) of the time of voting to one day reduced the practice of cooping .
- Cooping , the political version of the shanghai, involved kidnapping citizens...
- The Tories also engaged in "cooping ," intimidating people into voting Tory.